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Compensation: 38% of Hourly Workers Aren’t Making a Living Wage

April 24, 2018

Via: HR Hero
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As an HR professional, you hear a lot about pay equity and the gender wage gap, but how often do you hear about the pay inequality that is plaguing hourly workers? A new report released by Snag (formerly Snagajob), a platform for hourly work, reveals that 38% of workers earning $20 or less an hour consider themselves underemployed.

The report, State of the Hourly Worker Report, shines light on a record number of employed Americans not making a living wage. The report defines the underemployed as those who are currently employed hourly or rely on gig work as their primary source of income, but still need more hours to make ends meet.

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