{"id":7335,"date":"2023-04-28T10:15:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-28T10:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7335"},"modified":"2023-05-01T20:51:23","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T20:51:23","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-currently-employed-adults-aged-%e2%89%a518-years-who-have-paid-sick-leave-by-education-level-national-health-interview-survey-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2023\/04\/28\/7335\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Currently Employed Adults Aged \u226518 Years Who Have Paid Sick Leave by Education Level \u2014 National Health Interview Survey, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7217a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm7217a6-F.gif?_=36853\" width=\"455\" height=\"296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, 72.5% of employed adults had paid sick leave.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage with sick leave was highest among workers with a bachelor\u2019s degree or higher (83.6%), followed by workers with an associate degree (73.2%).<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of sick leave was similar for workers with some college (66.3%) and those with a high school diploma or GED (64.4%).<\/p>\n<p>The lowest percentage of sick leave occurred among workers with less than a high school education (48.8%).<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey, 2021.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nhis.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7217a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm7217a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, 72.5% of employed adults had paid sick leave. The percentage with sick leave was highest among workers with a bachelor\u2019s degree or higher (83.6%), followed by workers with an associate degree (73.2%). The percentage of sick leave was similar for workers with some college (66.3%) and those with a high school diploma or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64364,63673,53746,53752],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7337,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7335\/revisions\/7337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}