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What percentage of working Americans had more than one job last month?

19.8% of working Americans had more than one job last month - about 20 in every 100, or 2 in 10. That is the figure published by the Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking for 2025.

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19.8

Where this number comes from

Survey
Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking
What it measured
SHED 2025 item D4 (“Last month, did you have more than one job, including part time, evening or weekend work?”), counting responses 1=Yes, among adults who did any work for pay or profit last month (D1A = Yes). Computed from the Federal Reserve's public-use microdata with its post-stratification weight WEIGHT. The public file has no design variables or replicate weights, so the standard error follows the Fed's documented design effect: SE = √(deff · p(1−p)/n), deff = 1.14 (the Fed's 1.14, or the Kish design effect of these weights if larger); unweighted n = 7,488.
Population
U.S. adults who worked for pay last month
Year
2025
95% confidence interval
18.84% to 20.76% (derived from the published standard error)

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, public-use data (doi:10.17016/datasets.002). Percentages computed here, with attribution.. See the source data

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