Some Choose Part-time Work for More Pay?
The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) found 12 occupations for which part-time workers earn more than full-time employees.
Occupation | Full-time earnings rate | Part-time earnings rate |
Computer systems analyst | $37.64 | $60.10 |
Clergy | 16.23 | 22.87 |
Engineering and architecture teachers, post-secondary | 57.42 | 73.56 |
Therapists | 29.59 | 34.32 |
Physical therapists | 33.82 | 37.16 |
Speech-language pathologists | 33.20 | 63.52 |
Medical and clinical lab technologists | 23.24 | 26.69 |
Dental hygienists | 30.60 | 36.01 |
Licensed practical and licensed vocational nurses | 18.50 | 19.36 |
Legal secretaries | 20.57 | 23.37 |
Farmworkers and laborers, crop, nursery & greenhouse | 9.77 | 14.51 |
Construction laborers | 15.73 | 19.69 |
A BLS report shows that there are more occupations in the Pacific region that pay more for part-time workers than for full-time employees. The most common occupations in which this happens are health-care related.
The BLS report is here .