Employee Tenure in 2010: “The median number of years that wage and salary workers had been with their current employer, referred to as employee tenure, was 4.4 in January 2010. The increase in tenure among those at work reflects, in part, relatively large job losses among less-senior workers in the most recent recession. Median employee tenure (the point at which half of all workers had more tenure and half had less tenure) was generally higher among older workers than younger ones. For example, the median tenure of workers ages 55 to 64 (10.0 years) was more than three times that of workers ages 25 to 34 (3.1 years). A larger percentage of older workers than younger workers had 10 years or more of tenure. For instance, more than half of all workers ages 60 to 64 were employed for at least 10 years with their current employer in January, compared with only 13 percent of individuals ages 30 to 34.”