For millions of hourly and shift workers, flexibility is built into when they work but rarely into when they get paid. Labor Economy workers are hourly, gig, seasonal or shift-based workers earning no more than $25 an hour and typically less than $50,000 a year....
For roughly 60 million workers in the United States, getting sick is not only a health event. It can be an income event, and, soon afterward, a spending event. PYMNTS Intelligence’s Wage to Wallet Index, a collaboration with WorkWhile, found in August that 26.6% of...
A sick day may last 24 hours. The financial effects can stay much longer. For millions of workers, one missed shift can reduce the next paycheck and force a fast change in household spending. The “Wage to Wallet Index: Paid Time, Unpaid Risk” draws on...
A dollar can only stretch so far. For 60 million Labor Economy workers, each trip to the checkout can involve hard choices about what to buy, how to pay and what to leave behind. The July 2026 Wage to Wallet™ Index examines how workers earning no...
September 15, 2026
For millions of hourly and shift workers, flexibility is built into when they work but rarely into when they get paid. Labor Economy workers are hourly, gig, seasonal or shift-based workers earning no more than $25 an hour and typically less than $50,000 a year. Only 11% of them have access to on-demand pay through […]
September 10, 2026
For roughly 60 million workers in the United States, getting sick is not only a health event. It can be an income event, and, soon afterward, a spending event. PYMNTS...
July 03, 2026
Volatile gasoline prices are doing more than squeezing household budgets. Fuel costs are beginning to reshape the labor market by changing which jobs workers can afford to take and forcing...
May 15, 2026
Side hustles have moved from optional income enhancers to a routine feature of household financial management, reflecting a labor market where steady pay is no longer assured. That shift is...
January 25, 2026
Delivery companies have reportedly lost their bid to halt New York City’s new tipping law. Uber and DoorDash had asked a judge for an injunction to block the new law, which requires food delivery apps to offer customers the option to tip delivery workers, Reuters reported Friday (Jan. 23). According to the report, U.S. District […]
November 05, 2025
Freelance services marketplace Fiverr saw growing demand for talent with specialized skills during the third quarter, driven in part by small- to medium-sized businesses’ efforts to adopt artificial intelligence, the...
November 03, 2025
The labor market remained sluggish in the third quarter, but demand for freelance talent in areas related to artificial intelligence (AI) helped drive 2% year-over-year growth in gross services volume...
October 29, 2025
UPS is reportedly increasing its use of gig delivery drivers as eCommerce volumes grow. As The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday (Oct. 29), these drivers use their own vehicles to deliver smaller,...
