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Instawork's monthly summary of changes in roles, pay, demographics, and tightness in the local labor market:
Please contact the Economic Research team at press@instawork.com
Instawork's exclusive measure of pay trends in the local labor market
Continuous time series for shifts booked via Instawork
The share of shifts posted with less than 24 hours' notice
mean hourly pay
$0.6 lower than the national mean*
unemployment rate
1% higher than the national average**
higher consumer prices
relative to the national average***
* Bureau of Labor Statistics, all occupations, August 2023
** Bureau of Labor Statistics, headline unemployment rate, September 2023
*** Bureau of Economic Analysis, September 2023
