"In May 2017, the Labor Department counted 5.9 million people, or 3.8% of workers, in what it calls contingent jobs, which are those that the workers don't expect to last or that workers call temporary. In 2005, the last time the government looked into the issue, there were 4.1% of workers who classified themselves this way. Other classifications of these kinds of alternative arrangements either declined or stayed the same....
One key caveat: the government is measuring the job in which they usually work the most hours. The government notes it is still evaluating survey data on a question of those who found short tasks or jobs through a mobile app or website. "
The BLS report is at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/conemp.pdf
Here is another accounting:
Opinion: If the economy is so great, why are 78 million hustling for dimes? Nutting, Marketwatch 6/4/18 Millions of people are working erratic shifts, or scrambling for extra cashOverall in 2017, 31 percent of all adults engaged in
gig work in the month before the survey, up slightly
from 28 percent in 2016.
gig work in the month before the survey, up slightly
from 28 percent in 2016.
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