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Thinking of your main job, do you:
Type of main job arrangement · Asked in 3 waves, 2013–2015 · 7,795 responses · weighted estimates computed from individual responses
Shares of people who gave an answer. Each column is one wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
| Group | Work full-time for someone else | Work part-time for someone else | Work for yourself (self-employed) | Work as a partner in a partnership (e.g. partner in law firm, medical practice) |
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Shares of people who gave an answer. A group’s column is left blank in waves where its effective sample is under 50; hover for exact shares.
| Work as a consultant/contractor |
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| All respondents | 77% | 15% | 6% | 1% | 1% | 2775 | ±2 | |
| White | 77% | 15% | 7% | 1% | 1% | 1971 | ±3 | |
| Black | 79% | 16% | 3% | 1% | 1% | 287 | ±7 | |
| Hispanic | 76% | 16% | 7% | 0% | 1% | 323 | ±7 | |
| Asian | 77% | 17% | 4% | – | 2% | 97 | ±11 | |
| Other † | 72% | 16% | 10% | 0% | 2% | 97 | ±16 |
SHED 2015 · US adults 18+. Shares of people who gave an answer. n is unweighted; ± is the 95% margin of error at 50% from the weighted effective sample. Groups with an effective sample under 50 are grayed; under 20, hidden.