The percentage of Australians working at least two jobs has hit an all-time high, new data has revealed.<\/p>\n
Personal loan company Credit24 commissioned analysis of the official government jobs data, showing 6.9 per cent of working Australians hold more than one job \u2013 that rate held between 5 to 6 per cent from 1994 to 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur analysis shows the fastest growth is coming from people well past their first job, workers a decade or more into their careers,\u201d Credit24 analyst Lee Carney said.<\/p>\n
\u201cA second income at that stage of life often looks like a response to rising costs, though this data can\u2019t tell us that for any individual household.\u201d<\/p>\n
While more people living in the regions traditionally work more than one job, the gap with city-dwellers has narrowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat convergence could point to a more tech-enabled regional workforce, able to pick up the kind of second work that used to be a city-only option,\u201d Mr Carney said.<\/p>\n
The data shows most people working two jobs are doing part-time hours at both, but on average doing 39.3 hours a week, compared to 34.8 hours for someone with one job.<\/p>\n
The trend of more people working multiple jobs is also still rising. <\/p>\n
Across April, May and June this year, an additional 64,900 became multiple jobholders, the largest quarterly increase outside the pandemic reopening quarters of September 2020, December 2020 and December 2021.<\/p>\n
The 6.9 per cent of every employed Australian working at least two jobs represents 1,049,100 people.<\/p>\n
Women are 55 per cent of all multiple job holders, with 7.7 per cent of working women on the payroll at least two workplaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The percentage of Australians working at least two jobs has hit an all-time high, new data has revealed.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[218236,466036,13808,466037,466047,466055,466042,137160,466019,466029,466033,466038,466041,398087,466020,381022,466045,466054,405609,13449,466021,9356,466057,466056,64,27621,63,9461,38943,466023,99,32092,353557,466051,2458,466025,466034,164,466044,466046,579,8280,452014,378325,319586,466048,356653,466024,466026,94462,466049,413427,187436,466053,466040,466027,1861,466031,2178,67774,466043,466050,466032,399205,415364,86630,395657,466039,466028,466022,390176,389857,409793,395356,466052,424271,364611,466030,12632,1782,466035],"class_list":["post-897318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-218236","tag-466036","tag-13808","tag-100-people-women","tag-1994-to-2019","tag-34-8-hours","tag-39-3-hours","tag-137160","tag-6-9","tag-7-7","tag-a-city-only-option","tag-a-decade-or-more","tag-a-more-tech-enabled-regional-workforce","tag-a-response","tag-a-second-income","tag-a-week","tag-all-multiple-job-holders","tag-an-additional-64","tag-an-all-time-high","tag-analysis","tag-any-individual-household","tag-april","tag-at-least-two-jobs","tag-at-least-two-workplaces","tag-au","tag-aussies","tag-australia","tag-australians","tag-average","tag-between-5-to-6","tag-business","tag-cent","tag-city-dwellers","tag-credit24-analyst-lee-carney","tag-data","tag-december-2020","tag-december-2021-the","tag-economy","tag-every-employed-australian","tag-grim-aussie-work-trend","tag-high","tag-life","tag-may-and-june","tag-more-australians","tag-more-people","tag-more-than-one-job","tag-most-people","tag-mr-carney","tag-multiple-jobholders","tag-multiple-jobs","tag-new-analysis","tag-new-data","tag-newswire-news","tag-one-job-the-trend","tag-our-analysis","tag-part-time-hours","tag-people","tag-personal-loan-company-credit24","tag-rate","tag-rising-costs","tag-second-work","tag-september-2020","tag-that-convergence","tag-that-stage","tag-the-fastest-growth","tag-the-gap","tag-the-kind","tag-the-largest-quarterly-increase","tag-the-official-government-jobs-data","tag-the-pandemic-reopening-quarters","tag-the-payroll","tag-the-percentage","tag-the-regions","tag-their-careers","tag-their-first-job","tag-this-data","tag-this-year","tag-two-jobs","tag-women","tag-workers","tag-working-australians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}