found 66
percent of younger workers reported they expect to leave their current job within the next six months.
With that kind of financial burden, it's not surprising that almost 90
percent of young workers have said they would benefit from a student loan repayment program, similar to a 401k match at their jobs.
Not exact matches
By way
of pay, while the average
worker at a startup earns about 6
percent less than a
worker at a more established firm, the
youngest workers earn about 3
percent more than they do at older firms.
Financial services firm Edward Jones found 45
percent of workers are not saving for retirement, with
young people the worst offenders.
And this segues into a particularly eyebrow - raising (if not surprising) finding: 89
percent of millennials say they have a strong work ethic, while 74
percent of non-millennial respondents think
younger workers lack the work ethic
of previous generations.
Though just 3
percent of those work more than 15 hours a week as an independent cited the likes
of Freelancer.com as their primary source
of work, «they are relatively important for
young and inexperienced independent
workers, with 18
percent of Gen Y independents» listing them as a source
of gigs and «21
percent of those who have been independent for less than one year» relying on these marketplaces as well.
Any qualified
young widow received 75
percent of the
worker's primary insurance benefit and surviving children received 50
percent of the
worker's primary insurance amount.59 For both survivors» and dependents» benefits, eligibility was based solely on marriage to a covered
worker and without account for actual need.60
The protections will also extend to independent contractors and freelance
workers, which
Young says represent 40
percent of the workforce.
Its cohort
of young, educated
workers grew by nearly 20
percent in the first three decades
of the 21st century, delivering a demographic dividend that continues to stoke economic engines.
[5] Accredited, center - based childcare for a dual - earner family with two
young children and with earnings at 150
percent of the average full - time
worker's wage would cost that family, on average, 29
percent of their take - home pay.
Eighty
percent of garment
workers are
young women between 18 and 24.