Involuntary part-time employment—the share of people who work less than 35 hours per week but want and are available to work full-time—has increased since 2023. While this contrasts with steady ...

March's employment report showed that 17.4% of total employed workers were part-time and 82.6% of total employed workers were full-time. In March 2026, part-time employment for the "core" workforce ...

Buried near the bottom of table A-9 of the government's employment situation summary are the numbers for full- and part-time workers, with 35-or-more hours as the arbitrary divide between the two ...