working age
Prime career span
Working age refers to the span of life when a person is considered eligible for employment—typically from mid-teens to mid-sixties, though exact boundaries vary by country and context.
The term appears most often in economic and policy discussions: the working-age population, adults of working age.
It implies neither actual employment nor ability to work, only falling within the conventional age range for labor force participation.
- adultMature person, legally responsible
- employedHaving paid work
- full timeComplete work schedule
- nine to fiveStandard workday timeframe
- laborStrenuous effort; also childbirth
job market · workforce · productive · career · job · retirement · pension · social security · eighteen · sixty-five · breadwinner · taxpayer · commute · prime · prime years · employable · earning · demographic
- workforceemployee, employees, labor force, employer, labor
- age-related termschildhood, adulthood, infancy, toddler years, puberty
- life stagesbaby, teenager, adult, childhood, adolescence
- Youth Jobssummer jobs, part-time jobs, first job, babysitters, babysitting
- agesinfant, child, kid, teen, adult
- age limitslearner permit, legal capacity, eighteen, sixteen, twenty-one
working ageretirement age
Standard work-ending milestone
retired · minor · childhood · old age · pensionable age
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