September 21, 2001 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Working more than one job in 2000
Last year, 5.6 percent of U.S. workers held more than one job, down from 5.8 percent in 1999.
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States continued to show considerable variation in multiple jobholding rates around the U.S. average, as well as a clear geographic pattern from North to South. For example, all seven States in the West North Central division had
multiple jobholding rates at least 2.0 percentage points higher than that of the United States. Nebraska and North Dakota were the only States to record double-digit
rates—10.3 and 10.0 percent, respectively.
By contrast, 7 of the 11 States with multiple jobholding rates below 5.0 percent were along the southern U.S. border. Florida,
at 3.9 percent, had the lowest rate in the Nation.
The multiple jobholding statistics are prepared by the Local
Area Unemployment Statistics program using data from the Current
Population Survey . Multiple jobholders are employed persons who had
either two or more jobs as a wage and salary worker, were self-employed
and also held a wage and salary job, or worked as an unpaid family worker
and also held a wage and salary job. Find out more information on multiple
jobholding by State in "Regional
Trends," Monthly Labor Review, July 2001.
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