In a slowing labor market, even people with jobs are increasingly making do with less-than-ideal arrangements. They’re stuck ...

Payroll employment overall rose by 50,000 in December, nearly identical to the average monthly growth for all of 2025 (49,000 ...

According to the BLS, workers can be employed part-time for one of two reasons: a) Economic reasons – Refers to those who worked 1 to 34 hours for an economic reason such as slack work or unfavorable ...

Full-time jobs are getting harder to find for many Americans and so they're taking part-time positions. The ranks of such ...

Part-time work often gets a reputation for offering lower pay, but that’s not always true. In many industries, there are good ...

Part-time work spiked during the recent recession and has stayed stubbornly high, raising concerns that elevated part-time employment represents a “new normal” in the labor market. However, recent ...

Have all of the country’s recent job gains come from increases in part-time positions? That’s what independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said in a recent social media post. On March ...

The median weekly earnings of part-time wage and salary workers in the U.S. is $340, according to 2022 data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). That means the typical part-time worker is ...