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BRIEF
JUNE 2015
The Center for Popular Democracy (CPD) works to create equity, opportunity,
and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building
organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions. The Fair Workweek
Initiative (FWI), a collaborative effort anchored by CPD, is dedicated to restoring
family-sustaining work hours for all working Americans. We partner with diverse
stakeholders to advance an integrated set of strategies that include policy change,
workplace-based demands and high road employer advocacy. Please contact
Rachel Deutsch (rdeutsch@populardemocracy.org) to learn more.
Bernalillo County, New Mexico has almost 472,000 hourly workersnearly two-thirds of
its total workforce b who would benefit from updating workplace protections to match our
modern workweek. Across multiple measures, hourly workers are more likely than salaried
workers to experience volatile, precarious schedules. A national survey found that 41 percent
of early-career hourly workers know their schedules a week or less in advance and half of the
hourly workers in the study said their schedules were decided by their employer alone. Nearly
three-quarters of hourly workers reported that their weekly work hours had fluctuated in the
past month.1
This brief examines who the Countys nearly half-million hourly workers are; the working
conditions they face; and the tailored policies that public officials can enact to match the
changing rhythms of todays workplace.
though the majority of both hourly and non-hourly workers are assigned 40 or more hours
of work a week, hourly workers are much more likely than non-hourly workers to be assigned
fewer work hours (Fig. 1). Bernalillo County has almost 50,000 women paid hourly who work
less than 30 hours a week, compared to 32,000 men (Fig. 2). Another 13,000 women report
having hours that vary week to week.
a Approximately 82 percent of Bernalillo County residents live in Albuquerque. Policies enacted by the
City of Albuquerque would protect the vast majority of the Countys hourly workers (Source: United
States Census, State and County Quick Facts).
b T
his refers to the workforce earning wages and salaries who were employed, at work. All data in
this brief is based on CPD analysis of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Current Population Survey
Outgoing Rotation Group Data for 2014, unless otherwise noted.
ALL
% OF HOURLY
WORKFORCE
MEN
WOMEN
25,300
5%
12,500
12,800
Between 1 and 4
0%
Between 5 and 14
17,400
4%
6,100
11,300
Between 15 and 29
63,200
13%
25,900
37,900
Between 30 and 34
32,600
7%
12,300
20,200
Between 35 and 39
13,600
7%
25,600
18,500
40 hours
262,000
56%
144,000
118,800
Over 40
37,000
8%
27,000
10,000
472,000*
100%
242,000
220,000
Hours Vary
Total
*May not sum to total due to rounding. Hours worked at main job.
Women, non-hourly
5 to 14
15 to 24
25 to 29
30 and 34
Men, non-hourly
Women, hourly
Men, hourly
35 and 39
40 hours
41 to 99
Wages
In 2014, 50,900 hourly workers in the County were paid at or below $8.50 an hour, the lowest
minimum wage for any workers in the County. Almost 62,000 workers were earning between
this minimum wage and $10 per hour (or between $17,200 and $20,800 per year), and 117,000
hourly workers earned between $10 and $15 per hour (or between $20,800 and $31,200 per
year).c We predict that at least 230,000 low wage hourly workers will be protected under the
new scheduling provisions.
c The actual number of low-wage workers affected will be greater. About 30 percent of hourly workers did not respond to questions
on the Bureau of Labor Statistics survey regarding their hourly rate of pay and several of them may have been low-wage workers.
Thus, these figures provide a conservative estimate.
Gender
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Families
151,000 hourly workers are parents of
children below the age of 18. 71,000
of them, or nearly 30 percent, are
single parents.
Louis Castaneda
Race
Sixty-six percent of Bernalillo Countys hourly workforce are
people of color, while 34 percent are people of color (Fig. 4).
Native American, Black and Latino workers are most likely to
be paid hourly: 82 percent of the Native American workforce,
73 percent of the Black workforce and 71 percent of the Latino
workforce in Bernalillo County is paid hourly, compared to 52
percent of Whites, and 38 percent of Asian workers. Black, White
and Asian women are all more likely to work hourly than men of
the same race (Fig. 5).
# WORKERS
SHARE OF HOURLY
WORKFORCE
Latino
243,000
51%
White
161,000
34%
Native American
44,000
9%
Black
11,000
2%
Mixed race
7,000
1%
Asian
6,000
1%
*Latino is all Hispanic; all other races do not include Hispanic. May not sum due to rounding.
71%
70%
100,000
Men, hourly
Men, non-hourly
Women, hourly
Women, non-hourly
49%
56%
80,000
60,000
40,000
67%
20,000
80%
84%
80%
31%
48%
62%
68%
Latino
White
Native
American
Black
Asian
Mixed Race
Industries
Several of Bernalillo Countys top industries employing hourly workers are in the service
sector (Fig. 6). These industries are widely known for their low paying jobs. Less known,
yet with no less of an impact on individual and family income, hourly work in these sectors
is characterized by fluctuating and unpredictable work hours. Ninety percent of early-career
food service workers paid hourly experience schedule volatility. This means their weekly
schedules, and therefore their paychecks, can vary by as much as 68 percent of their usual
hours worked. Eighty-seven percent of early-career retail workers paid hourly experience
schedule volatility, and their paychecks and hours can swing by almost 50 percent.2 Over onefifth of the Countys hourly workers are employed in these two sectors alone (Fig. 7).
All industries
63%
472,000
Retail trade
73%
56,300
56%
87%
44,300
47%
Public administration
62%
41,600
34%
74%
37,300
17
88%
39%
35,100
56%
Construction
69%
29,200
19
10%
45%
28,300
11
63%
Hospitals
69%
22,500
14
72%
Manufacturing
55%
19,100
39%
Mining
80%
18,100
10
20
10
17%
84%
17,700
11
10
41%
Wholesale trade
69%
13,800
12
18
23%
Transportation and
warehousing
58%
13,100
13
22
19%
Social assistance
81%
9,600
16
22
84%
Educational services
n/d: no data disclosed
ALL WORKERS
(RANKING)
FEMALE
(RANKING)
MALE
(RANKING)
% OF HOURLY
WORKFORCE
THAT IS FEMALE
PAID
HOURLY
INDUSTRY
49%
ALL HOURLY
WORKERS
% ALL HOURLY
WOMEN (#)
% HOURLY
WOMEN
230,000
MEN (#)
% HOURLY MEN
All industries
472,000
242,000
Retail trade
56,200
12%
31,400
14%
24,800
10%
44,300
9%
20,700
9%
23,600
10%
Public administration
41,600
9%
14,000
6%
27,600
11%
37,300
8%
32,900
14%
2%
Educational services
35,100
7%
19,800
9%
15,300
6%
Construction
29,200
6%
1%
26,200
11%
28,300
6%
17,900
8%
10,400
4%
Hospitals
22,500
5%
16,200
7%
6,300
3%
Manufacturing
19,100
4%
7,500
3%
11,500
5%
Mining
18,100
4%
1%
15,000
6%
Notes
1 Susan J. Lambert, Peter J. Fugiel, and Julia R. Henly, Precarious Work Schedules among Early-Career Employees
in the US: A National Snapshot, EINet (Employment Instability, Family Well-being, and Social Policy Network) at the
University of Chicago, August 2014.
2 Lambert et al, 2014.
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