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What percentage of employed Americans would stop working if they got rich?

33.9% of employed Americans would stop working if they got rich - about 34 in every 100, or 3 in 10. That is the figure published by the General Social Survey for 2024.

0 in 100100 in 100
33.9

Where this number comes from

Survey
General Social Survey
What it measured
GSS 2024 item RICHWORK (“If rich, continue or stop working”), counting responses 2=stop working. Computed from NORC's public-use microdata with the survey weight WTSSNRPS and a Taylor-linearised standard error over the published design variables VSTRAT and VPSU; unweighted n = 1,333.
Population
employed U.S. adults
Year
2024
95% confidence interval
30.5% to 37.3% (derived from the published standard error)

NORC at the University of Chicago; public-use microdata, free for research and educational use. Percentages computed here, with attribution.. See the source data

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