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1. Americans’ experiences earning money through online gig platforms
16% of Americans have ever earned money on online gig platforms
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- 1. Americans’ experiences earning money through online gig platforms
- 16% of Americans have ever earned money on online gig platforms
- Three-in-ten Hispanic adults and roughly one-in-five Black or Asian adults have ever earned money as gig platform workers
- Hispanic adults are more likely than other racial and ethnic groups to have earned money making app deliveries from a restaurant or store, as are 18- to 29-year-olds compared with those 30 and older
- Roughly half of non-White gig platform workers have earned money doing multiple types of gig platform jobs
- About one-in-five 18- to 29-year-olds have earned money through online gig platforms in the past 12 months
- 31% of gig platform workers who have earned money this way in the past year say it’s been their main job during this time … and about one-in-ten say they have typically spent more than 30 hours a week doing these jobs in the past 12 months
- A majority of gig platform workers think of themselves as independent contractors, with some modest differences by age, political party and recency of work