CalHR's Statewide Workforce Planning Unit continually analyzes civil service state workforce demographic data, and develops organization specific and classification watch lists biannually in order to bolster workforce planning strategies within the State of California.
The most current available state employee and retiree demographics information is posted to this page. To access information from prior years, see the Past Employee Demographics and Labor Statistics archive section below.
December 2020 California
State Civil Service Employee Age Demographics
The following employee age demographic findings are based on workforce data from December 2020. For an accessible version of all demographic charts below, refer to the Employee Age Demographics Graphs PDF.
Generational Cohort Conversion
Reference the table below to apply generational cohorts to five-year age increments in the graphs above. The age increments identified in the chart below are not an exact alignment to cohort years. Note: cohort year ranges are subject to change.
Traditionalists
| 1925 - 1945
| Represents 8% or less of 65+ increments in each graph
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Baby Boomers
| 1946 - 1964
| 55 - 59; 60 - 64; 65+
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Generation X
| 1965 - 1981
| 40 - 44; 45 - 49; 50 - 54
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Millennials
| 1982 - 1996
| 25 - 29; 30 - 34; 35 - 39
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Generation Z
| 1997 - 2015
| 18 - 24
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