10 states where workers crave side gigs

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For many employees, the 9-to-5 just doesn’t cut it anymore — in terms of both culture and income — and they’re looking elsewhere to supplement their professional lives.

Forty-four percent of Americans currently have a side job, according to Wisevoter, a bipartisan educational site. The platform recently analyzed recent data on Google searches for side jobs between December 2022 and January 2023 compared to 2021 and 2020. The difference was remarkable — employees are searching for side jobs 49.8% more than last year and almost 70% compared to 2020. 

Paola Peralta
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Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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