Percentage of U.S. manufacturing jobs that required a bachelor’s degree in 1983
: 14
Percentage of US college graduates whose first jobs do not typically require a college degree
: 43
Of college graduates whose jobs five years after graduation do not typically require a college degree
: 35
Estimated number of US newspaper jobs lost since the year 2000
: 240,700
Percentage of workers aged 24 to 35 who plan on quitting their jobs within two years
: 43
Percentage of U.S. mothers who have stopped working or switched to less challenging jobs in order to care for children
: 62
Percentage of workers worldwide who do not have permanent jobs
: 75
Number of executioner jobs advertised on Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Civil Service website in May
: 8
Percentage change since 1992 in the portion of jobs in the United States that require no high-school diploma
: +1
Number of U.S. congressional districts in which trade with China has produced more jobs than it has cost
: 1
Number of local-government jobs lost since 2010
: 351,000
Portion of those jobs that were in education
: 3/4
Portion of U.S. jobs held by humans today that are at high risk of being automated by 2024
: 1/2
Percentage of 2012 U.S. law-school graduates not currently in full-time jobs requiring membership in the bar
: 43
Number of U.S. retail jobs Doritos Locos tacos created in the past year, according to Taco Bell
: 15,000
Number of retail jobs created worldwide by Apple in that same period
: 400
Portion of new U.S. jobs since 2009 that have gone to men
: 4/5
Percentage of lawyers and fast-food workers, respectively, who say their jobs may make the world worse
: 3.6, 42.3
Number of jobs lost by African-American women during the recession
: 233,000
Estimated number of jobs created by every $1,000,000,000 of military spending
: 11,000
Portion of voters in the midterm elections who ranked “spending to create jobs” as their highest priority for Congress
: 2/5
Number of U.S. state and local government jobs that have been lost so far this year
: 135,000
Number of public-school jobs that have been lost in the past year
: 85,700
