For Labor Economy Workers, Sick Days Quickly Become Spending Cuts

For roughly 60 million workers in the United States, getting sick is not only a health event. It can be an income event, and, soon afterward, a spending event. PYMNTS Intelligence ’s Wage to Wallet Index , a collaboration with WorkWhile , found in August that 26.6% of Labor Economy workers lost employment income because of their own illness or injury during the previous 12 months.