Changing jobs is daunting—you have to learn a new workflow, form new relationships, and tackle a new learning curve. So what industries see the most turnover? And where is it most common for people to make a leap to a new industry? The information designer Nathan Yau published a new visualization that reveals people’s job-changing patterns, placing a macro lens on an experience nearly everyone undergoes at some point in their lives.
Based on data from the Census Bureau and Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2011 to 2016, the data shows how people tend to switch out of some industries more frequently than others. It makes sense: lifeguards switch out of their jobs more than 50% of the time, and travel guides switch out a little more than 40% of the time. On the other hand, lawyers, judges, CEOs, and physicians tend to switch far less frequently—less than 10% of the time. That’s probably because the former are often seasonal temporary positions held by young people, while the latter are jobs where you have to undergo years of training and education.