A plumb line through published measures of secondary earnings
Wage Plumb hangs a vertical against survey and administrative frames: named sources, visible coverage limits, and no claim about any reader’s circumstances.
The desk reads household supplements, platform-work pilots, and papers that try to keep a second job from leaning off the main-job frame. It does not publish testimonials, income forecasts, or sequences that purport to change a household’s receipts.
Each note names the instrument and the definition in play. When later official releases disagree with earlier non-official panels, that disagreement stays on the page.
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CWS: the vertical of secondary earnings beside the main job
How the Contingent Worker Supplement asks about arrangements, and where a second spell of pay can sit outside the primary catalog slot.
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Katz and Krueger: when an arrangement share hangs off the plumb
What alternative-arrangement definitions cover, and why later official supplements do not always sit on the same line.
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OECD platform-work coverage: a drop before the count
How international measurement pilots define platform-mediated work before it enters employment or income statistics.
Wage Plumb is an independent editorial record. It is not a marketplace or coaching desk. Advertising, when present, is labeled and kept off the notes.