Part-Time Retailing
Tables/Charts:Part-Time Employment in Retailing, 2010
Part-Time Hours in Retailing, 2010
Summary Points:
- Retailing provides employment opportunities for individuals who prefer to, or must, work part-time. This is particularly significant for women, who account for over 60 percent of the retail industry's part-time workforce.
- Over one-third of total retail employees worked part-time in 2010.
- Of those working part-time, seven out of ten chose to do so.
- The average part-time retail employee works 21.6 hours per week. The average part-time employee at food service and drinking places works 21.3 hours per week.
| Part-Time* Employment in Retailing, 2010 (NAICS Definitions, Thousands of Employees, and Percent) | |||
| Total | Men | Women | |
| Total Retail (Plus Food Service and Drinking Places)Employment** | 23,057 | 11,420 | 11,637 |
| Part-Time Employment | 8,983 | 3,575 | 5,408 |
| Share of Total | 39.0% | 31.3% | 16.5% |
| Voluntarily Part-Time Employment | 6,353 | 2,390 | 3,963 |
| Share of Part-Time | 70.7% | 66.9% | 73.3% |
| Involuntarily Part-Time Employment | 2,630 | 1,185 | 1,445 |
| Share of Part-Time | 29.3% | 33.1% | 26.7% |
| * Less than 35 hours per week. ** The number of retail employees reported here is smaller than previous totals because the survey used to determine the part- or full-time status of employees classifies some of the workers as unemployed. Source: Derived from U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics data. | |||
| Part-Time* Hours in Retailing,** 2010 (NAICS Definitions, Thousands of Employees, and Percent) | ||||
| Hours | Employment*** | Share of Total | Women | Men |
| 1-34 | 8,984 | 100.0% | 60.2% | 39.8% |
| 1-4 | 227 | 2.5 | 58.1 | 41.9 |
| 5-14 | 1,440 | 16.0 | 62.2 | 37.8 |
| 15-29 | 4,941 | 55.0 | 60.8 | 39.2 |
| 30-34 | 2,376 | 26.4 | 57.9 | 42.1 |
| * Less than 35 hours per week. ** Includes Food Service and Drinking Places. *** This total differs from the totals reported for part-time employment because it comes from an annual survey of people "actually at work," as opposed to "generally employed," on a particular survey date. Source: Derived from U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics data. | ||||
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