Mark 01
BLS Contingent Worker Supplement: depth marks beside the main-job frame
What the CWS asks about contingent and alternative work, and where secondary earnings can sit outside primary catalog slots.
Staff Gauge
Independent notes that mark how published research records secondary earnings on survey and administrative frames
A depth-mark desk for method: named sources, visible coverage limits, and no claim about any reader’s circumstances.
On this gauge
Three depth marks
Notes review published instruments and papers on secondary jobs, platform-mediated work, and how household surveys list those flows—not income playbooks.
Household surveys, administrative records, and international measurement guidance are compared with methodological critique in the same text.
Staff Gauge does not publish testimonials, reviews, or outcome stories. The desk describes how others measure; it does not prescribe conduct or forecast effects.
Catalog
Recent readings
Mark 02
Katz and Krueger on alternative arrangements: leveling definitions before a count
How a widely cited paper defines alternative work arrangements and what those definitions do—and do not—cover about secondary earnings.
Mark 03
OECD platform measurement: staff readings before a count enters the frame
How international measurement pilots define platform-mediated work before it enters employment or income statistics.
Standards
Editorial criteria
- No presupposition about the reader. Staff Gauge does not claim or imply knowledge of any visitor’s personal, labor, or financial situation.
- Named source or no claim. Every figure or pattern is attributed to an identifiable study or instrument. Contested evidence is marked as contested in the same paragraph.
- Method critique on the page. Each note states sample, definition, or coverage limits; findings are not presented as universal conclusions.
- No outcome framing. Content is not described as a system, protocol, or sequence that produces income, employment, or a change of condition.
Boundaries
What this desk is not
Staff Gauge is an independent editorial record. It is not a marketplace, coaching service, or claims desk for products. Advertising, when present, is disclosed separately from editorial notes.
The desk does not collect or publish reader success stories. Corrections of factual errors are welcomed at the contact address.