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What percentage of employed Americans work for a private employer?
79.5% of employed Americans work for a private employer — about 80 in every 100, or 8 in 10. That is the figure published by the American Community Survey for 2023.
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Where this number comes from
- Survey
- American Community Survey
- What it measured
- American Community Survey 1-year estimate, published under the label “CLASS OF WORKER → Civilian employed population 16 years and over → Private wage and salary workers”.
- Population
- employed Americans aged 16 and over
- Year
- 2023
- 90% confidence interval
- 79.4% to 79.6%
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