The 12bet官方 研究所 issued a new report today showing that participation in the online platform economy–where people are paid for online gigs like driving services, 销售货物, 或者出租他们的房子——继续增长, 但自2014年达到峰值以来，已经大幅放缓. At the same time there is a high degree of turnover in the online platform economy, as one in six participants are new each month and more than half exit within 12 months.

“Consumer spending growth has risen again after a significant decline in May,” said Diana Farrell, President and CEO of the 12bet官方 研究所. “小企业是6月份增长的亮点, which is notable given their positive impact on local economies and employment.”

最新指数的主要亮点包括: 在线平台经济:增长已见顶?  also provides a unique look at the growth in participation in and earnings from the online platform economy in 15 major U.S. 城市:亚特兰大, 芝加哥, 哥伦布, 达拉斯, 丹佛, 底特律, 休斯顿, 洛杉矶, 迈阿密, 纽约, 凤凰城, 圣地亚哥, 旧金山, 圣何塞和西雅图.

“The online platform economy continues to grow but the pace of growth has slowed dramatically,” said Diana Farrell, President and CEO, 12bet官方 研究所. “As unemployment falls and more people gain traditional jobs, they are less likely to participate in the online platform economy and more likely to exit.”

The report was constructed using anonymized account data from October 2012 to June 2016 on more than 240,000核心大通客户. All of these individuals received income at least once during this time frame from one or more of 42 different platforms..

以下是新报告的主要发现:

• Growth in participation in the Online Platform Economy peaked in 2014 and has slowed since then.
  • 累计4.3 percent of adults earned income from the platform economy as of June 2016—1.5%来自劳动平台，2%.8%来自资本平台.
  • 截至2016年6月, participation in capital platforms exhibited no year-over-year growth, but participation in labor platforms roughly doubled year-over-year.
• Turnover in the Online Platform Economy is high: one in six participants in any given month is new, 超过一半的参与者在12个月内退出.
  • More than one-third of capital platform participants earned platform income for just one month compared to 17 percent of labor platform participants.
• Non-employed individuals are more likely than the employed to participate in labor platforms but represent a decreasing share of participants as the unemployment rate drops.
  • The fraction of labor platform participants with a job outside the online platform economy increased from a low of 24 percent in January 2013 to 51 percent in June 2016 while the official unemployment rate fell from 8.0%到4%.同期增长了9%.
  • 截至2016年6月, 49 percent of labor platform participants and 39 percent of capital platform participants were not otherwise employed.
• Platform earnings and participation differ significantly across cities.  While monthly earnings on capital platforms increased by 34 percent between June 2014 and June 2016, 他们在劳动平台上减少了6% (a trend that coincides with wage cuts by some platforms.)
  • 2016年6月, 劳动平台的月平均收入从2美元到2美元不等,纽约是447美元，迈阿密是585美元.
  • 2016年6月, average monthly capital platform earnings ranged from $2,迈阿密是245美元，哥伦布是507美元.
  • At the city level, there is substantial variation in labor platform participation.
    • 2016年6月, participation on labor platforms ranged from 1.旧金山的成年人从2%降至0%.底特律的2%.
  • 纽约 experienced the fastest growth in participation—a 236 percent increase year-over-year—while 旧金山 experienced the slowest rate of growth at 26 percent year-over-year.
• 使用, 高收入, and younger participants are more likely to exit the Online Platform Economy within a year. There was wide dispersion in dropout rates across cities on labor platforms but little variation in dropout on capital platforms.
  • 在劳动平台, the percent of people who drop out of labor platforms within 12 months ranged from 69 percent in 底特律 to 45 percent in 旧金山.

This report follows the 研究所’s inaugural report on the online platform economy, 2016年2月发行, 薪水、发薪日和在线平台经济, which demonstrates the role that online gigs can play in managing income volatility.