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What percentage of working Americans say it would be very easy to find another job with about the same pay and benefits?

20.5% of working Americans say it would be very easy to find another job with about the same pay and benefits - about 21 in every 100, or 2 in 10. That is the figure published by the General Social Survey for 2024.

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20.5

Where this number comes from

Survey
General Social Survey
What it measured
GSS 2024 item JOBFIND (“Could R find equally good job”), counting responses 1=very easy. 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 = 1,223.
Population
working U.S. adults
Year
2024
95% confidence interval
17.23% to 23.77% (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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