Millennials Are Now The Largest Working Group In U.S. Small Businesses

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If you’re a millennial, you’re very familiar with the argument Baby Boomers or Gen X’s pedal about us: that we’re lazy, entitled and unaware of how real life works. We love rebutting this argument in any way we can, and we’re here to add fuel to the fire. According to a recent Paychex survey, millennials make up the largest workforce generation in U.S small businesses.

The survey’s findings show that millennials, a generational group which encompasses people born between roughly 1981 and 1997, are dominating this part of the workforce. The proportion of working millennials in the sector has grown to 38 percent in 2017 from under 25 percent in 2011.

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Female millennials make up 45.3 percent of the generation’s full-time workers in small business while men make up 54.7 percent. Interestingly enough, Paychex also found that the gender wage gap is narrower in the sector’s millennial workforce (full-time and part-time) than in previous generations. It should be noted, though, that the gap is wider when considering only full-time employees.

So, Baby Boomers and Gen X’s, do you still think we’re lazy? According to the Paychex survey, more millennials are hard at work than any other generation. You can fault us for sticking our heads in our phones and “killing department stores,” but you can’t say we don’t work. Research shows we do.