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Working in the Service Sector in Colorado 71% 64% - Insufficient Wages and Work Hours

14 Feb 2023

Our data reach the estimated living wage in the state of $19.16 permit an unprecedented view of labor conditions in per hour for a single adult with no children, and 83% of the service sector and provide unparalleled insight the workers we surveyed report wages that fell below into the work and family lives of low-wage workers. [...] When asked about their work schedule over the past month, the average worker reported a difference Schedules of 13.5 hours between the week they worked the most hour1s and the week they worked the fewest hours, In addition to widespread part-time scheduling that is a 37% gap between the average longest and that restricts the number of hours and total income shortest week. [...] The law reduced on-call shifts by 6 percentage points, decreased the share of workers Discussion reporting last minute timing changes, and increased the share of workers who received notice of their The Shift Project’s survey of service sector workers schedule at least two weeks in advance.15 These more provides a window into the experiences of workers stable and predictable schedules improved the. [...] The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Aging. [...] We align the ACS sample with the Shift sample by selecting workers in the ACS who are employed in the same occupations and industries as the Shift sample and report that their place of work is within the state of Colorado.
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