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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.
The following employee age demographic findings are based on workforce data from December 2022. For an accessible version of all demographic charts below, refer to the Employee Age Demographics | 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.
Total Active and Inactive State Members | PDF 2008 to 2014
Total Active and Inactive State Members | PDF 2015 to 2022
Retirees' Average Age and Average Years of Service by Class Code | Text Only (RTF) from Jan 2017 to December 2017
Historical data are categorized by month and year. To request statistics through 2011 email wfp@calhr.ca.gov.
Employee Age Demographics | PDF
Employee Age Demographics | PDF
Employee Age Demographics | PDF
Employee Age Demographics | PDF
Employee Age Demographics | PDF
Employee Age Demographics | PDF
Employee Age Demographics | PDF
Employee Age Demographics | PDF
Employee Age Demographics | PDF
Employee Age Demographic | PDF
Employee Age Demographics | PDF
Employee Age Demographics | Employee Age Demographics Graphs - PDF
Average Age of Retirement by Class Code
alphabetical order | alphabetical order - Text Only (RTF) or by class code | class code - Text Only (RTF)
alphabetical order or by class code
State Worker Service Retirements July 2018
State Worker Service Retirements April 2016