One-quarter of Americans in some way made money from the gig economy last year, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center.
Twenty-four percent of those surveyed earned money using a digital platform. Of that segment, 8 percent earned money by completing a job or task (like working for Instacart or Uber). Including some overlap, 18 percent of those surveyed made money by selling goods online. Only 1 percent made money by home-sharing through Airbnb or another site.
