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Instawork's monthly summary of changes in roles, pay, demographics, and tightness in the local labor market:
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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
$0.34 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, November 2023
** Bureau of Labor Statistics, headline unemployment rate, December 2023
*** Bureau of Economic Analysis, December 2023
