Workforce charts: who joined, who left, where they went
Hiring, exits, promotions and tenure, from Live Data Technologies data. For investors, revenue and talent leaders, and the reporters and analysts who cover them. By Alex Hamilton, Insights, with partner analysts.
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About 1 in 6 MBA graduates starts at one of just ten employersFirst jobs of 3,177 graduates of the Class of 2025 from 20 US programs, a year after school.Read the chart
About one in four early founding engineers who started in 2024 left within a yearJob histories of 15,009 people in the US who have held the founding engineer title since 2015.Read the chart
CMOs leave their jobs more often than CFOs and CTOsAbout 22 of every 100 CMOs left their role in 2024, against about 16 for CFOs and CTOs.Read the chart
Marketing engineer is a rising role in tech75 people held the title at tech firms in July 2026, up from 49 a year earlier.Read the chart
A year after the deferred resignation program, where did federal leavers go?4.9% of 2025 leavers now hold another federal executive branch job, against 19.4% of 2024 leavers.Read the chartWork with the data
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In the press recently
- Poets&Quants · Oct 2026Top Employers Still Hire Only About 1 In 6 MBAs, Study FindsBy Marc Ethier · Our data on where MBA graduates take their first jobs
- The CMO Club · Oct 2026CMOs Keep Leaving at Higher Rates Than CFOs and CTOsBy Paul Hiebert · Our data on CMO, CFO and CTO exit rates
- The Wall Street Journal · Sep 2026Marketers Are Rebranding as 'Engineers' to Survive the AI EraBy Katie Deighton · Our data on marketing engineer starts
- The Wall Street Journal · Sep 2026Corporate America Is Axing the 'Micro-Team' BossBy Chip Cutter · Our data on middle managers' share of exits
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