36%
2026 (thru Apr) (latest)
GOOD TIME TO FIND A QUALITY JOB
percent saying now is a good time to find a quality job · 2001–2026 · higher is better · computed from Gallup Good Time to Find a Quality Job monthly readings (annual mean)
28%
2001
69%
high · 2022
10%
low · 2009
+7.7 pts
since 2001
┊ dashed lines mark 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. "Thinking about the job situation in America today, would you say that it is now a good time or a bad time to find a quality job?" Question wording from the chart metadata (gZ2wl/9). Annual mean of published monthly values; multiple polls within a month are averaged before averaging months. Recent polling is roughly quarterly, not monthly; unpublished months are absent, never interpolated. The sourceUrl is the pinned Datawrapper CSV because the chart metadata's source-url is empty; pinned versions are retained for reproducibility and may lag the current chart. Breaks: none known.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/gZ2wl/4/dataset.csv
- https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/8YPmK/1/dataset.csv
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Societal-Health
Data
| Year | Good Time to Find a Quality Job | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 36% | −4.5 pts |
| 2025 | 40% | −8.3 pts |
| 2024 | 48% | −11 pts |
| 2023 | 59% | −9.5 pts |
| 2022 | 69% | +15 pts |
| 2021 | 54% | +15 pts |
| 2020 | 39% | −28 pts |
| 2019 | 67% | +2.0 pts |
| 2018 | 65% | +8.5 pts |
| 2017 | 56% | +14 pts |
| 2016 | 42% | +0.1 pts |
| 2015 | 42% | +13 pts |
| 2014 | 30% | +5.3 pts |
| 2013 | 24% | +5.5 pts |
| 2012 | 19% | +7.0 pts |
| 2011 | 12% | +0.9 pts |
| 2010 | 11% | +1.0 pts |
| 2009 | 10% | −10 pts |
| 2008 | 20% | −22 pts |
| 2007 | 43% | +1.2 pts |
| 2006 | 41% | +4.0 pts |
| 2005 | 37% | +5.3 pts |
| 2004 | 32% | +11 pts |
| 2003 | 21% | −4.5 pts |
| 2002 | 26% | −2.0 pts |
| 2001 | 28% | — |
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