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Not seasonally adjusted, the number of working teenagers in the US fell sharply in August 2023.
The number of 16- to 19-year-olds in employment fell by 496,000 from 6,542,000 to 6,046,000. Among this population, there are approximately 177,000 fewer youth (age 16-17) were considered employed, while 319,000 fewer older teenagers (ages 18-19) disappeared from the workforce.
Of course, such large numbers should be expected in the last month of summer, when the school season resumes and teenagers leave the workforce. That’s why the Bureau of Labor Statistics accounts for this annual event through seasonal adjustments. After these adjustments, BLS data show that teen employment increased in August 2023, but not enough to counteract the downward trends experienced by working teens in 2023.
The following chart shows the seasonality adjusted employment rate and employment-to-population ratio for the population aged 16-17, 18-19 and the aggregate age 16-19.
Each of the data series presented in these charts has been subjected to its own seasonal adjustment, so adding the number of working age 16-17 and 18-19 at any point in time does not necessarily give the total for the total age 16-19 population.
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US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Labor force statistics (Current Population Survey – CPS). (Internet database). Accessed: August 4, 2023.
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