Table 12. Employed workers with alternative and traditional work arrangements by contingent and noncontingent employment, February 2005
Table 12. Employed workers with alternative and traditional work arrangements by contingent and noncontingent
employment, February 2005
Percent distribution
Total
Arrangement (thousands) Contingent workers
Noncontingent
workers
Estimate 1 Estimate 2 Estimate 3
With alternative arrangements:
Independent contractors.......... 10,342 (1) 3.4 3.4 96.6
On-call workers.................. 2,454 10.4 10.6 24.6 75.4
Temporary help agency workers.... 1,217 30.4 37.8 60.7 39.3
Workers provided by contract
firms.......................... 813 6.8 9.8 19.5 80.5
With traditional arrangements...... 123,843 1.2 1.4 2.9 97.1
1 Not applicable. Excludes independent contractors and the self-employed (incorporated and unincorporated).
NOTE: Noncontingent workers are those who do not fall into any estimate of "contingent" workers. Workers
with traditional arrangements are those who do not fall into any of the "alternative arrangements" categories.