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Table 8. Employed workers with alternative and traditional work arrangements by occupation and industry, May 2017

Table 8. Employed workers with alternative and traditional work arrangements by occupation and industry, May 2017
(Percent distribution)
Characteristic Workers with alternative arrangements Workers with
traditional
arrangements
Independent
contractors
On-call
workers
Temporary
help agency
workers
Workers
provided by
contract firms

OCCUPATION

Total, 16 years and over (thousands)

10,614 2,579 1,356 933 137,853

Percent

100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Management, professional, and related occupations

43.4 35.6 21.7 49.1 40.7

Management, business, and financial operations occupations

23.9 5.3 4.6 13.9 16.7

Professional and related occupations

19.5 30.3 17.1 35.1 24.0

Service occupations

18.1 23.7 13.8 24.6 17.0

Sales and office occupations

16.0 11.3 19.3 6.5 22.0

Sales and related occupations

13.5 4.5 2.8 2.4 9.8

Office and administrative support occupations

2.5 6.8 16.5 4.1 12.1

Natural resources, construction, and maintenance occupations

15.9 16.1 6.1 13.3 8.5

Farming, fishing, and forestry occupations

0.4 1.2 0.4 0.4 0.8

Construction and extraction occupations

12.1 11.7 3.4 8.8 4.5

Installation, maintenance, and repair occupations

3.3 3.2 2.2 4.0 3.2

Production, transportation, and material moving occupations

6.7 13.2 39.2 6.6 11.8

Production occupations

1.7 2.6 19.8 2.2 6.0

Transportation and material moving occupations

5.0 10.6 19.3 4.4 5.8

INDUSTRY

Total, 16 years and over (thousands)

10,614 2,579 1,356 933 137,853

Percent

100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Agriculture and related industries

2.0 1.8 0.4 0.4 1.6

Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction

0.1 0.8 0.6 1.6 0.5

Construction

19.3 11.4 3.6 7.2 5.8

Manufacturing

2.2 3.7 32.2 12.0 11.1

Wholesale trade

1.5 1.1 3.6 1.0 2.3

Retail trade

6.4 6.0 1.2 3.2 11.1

Transportation and utilities

5.7 8.6 3.0 6.6 5.0

Information

2.2 2.3 1.9 2.0 1.9

Financial activities

9.6 3.4 4.2 8.5 6.9

Professional and business services

25.1 6.6 26.8 17.0 10.7

Education and health services

9.6 35.3 15.0 18.3 24.0

Leisure and hospitality

6.2 10.1 2.0 4.4 9.6

Other services

9.7 4.6 3.1 2.5 4.6

Public administration

0.4 4.2 1.2 14.7 5.0

NOTE: Workers with traditional arrangements are those who do not fall into any of the "alternative arrangements" categories. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. For temporary help agency workers and workers provided by contract firms, the industry classification is that of the place to which they were assigned. For a very small percentage of these workers, the industry was not provided.

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Last Modified Date: June 07, 2018