Hourly Work Changes by the Shift but Payday Doesn’t

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 their employer, according to “ The Schedule Shock: How Unstable Hours Turn Paychecks Into Guesswork ,” the May edition of PYMNTS Intelligence ’s Wage to Wallet Index , produced in col