How paid in main job

waypaid

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question In your main job, are you salaried, paid by the hour, or what?

Values

• [1] salaried

• [2] paid by the hour

• [3] other

• [4] commission

• [5] self-employed

• [6] paid by the job

• [7] salary and bonus/commission

• [8] tips

• [9] piece work

• [10] paid by day

• [11] paid by percent

• [12] paid by contract

• [NA(d)] don't know [NA(i)] iap [NA(j)] I don't have a job [NA(m)] dk, na, iap [NA(n)] no answer [NA(p)] not imputable [NA(r)] refused [NA(s)] skipped on web [NA(u)] uncodeable [NA(x)] not available in this release [NA(y)] not available in this year [NA(z)] see codebook

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/B/C	2002, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for waypaid.

Counts by year:

year	iap	salaried	paid by the hour	other	don't know	no answer	commission	self-employed	paid by the job	salary and bonus/commission	tips	piece work	paid by day	paid by percent	paid by contract	skipped on web	not available in this year	Total
2002	969	606	957	214	7	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2765
2006	2776	624	895	200	2	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4510
2010	857	408	595	62	2	25	30	24	27	12	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	2044
2014	1288	410	684	148	-	7	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	2538
2018	900	463	811	-	-	21	33	14	30	-	3	16	45	6	6	-	-	2348
2022	1539	745	1044	186	5	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	3544
Total	8329	3256	4986	810	16	91	63	38	57	12	6	16	45	6	6	12	0	17749

See also

Other Quality of Working Life: chngtme, moredays, mustwork, wrksched, wrktype, yearsjob

Other Employment: chngtme, moredays, mustwork, wrksched, wrktype, yearsjob

Other Work: moredays, mustwork, wrksched, yearsjob