cash jobs
Off-the-books employment
Cash jobs are work paid in physical currency rather than by check or bank transfer, typically to avoid tax reporting and official records.
The arrangement benefits both parties—workers receive untaxed income, employers skip payroll obligations.
Common in construction, domestic work, and day labor: He picked up cash jobs on weekends to make extra money.
The term carries a slight whiff of the under-the-table economy.
- gigShort-term paid work
- under-the-tableSecret and unofficial
- hustleEnergetic, aggressive action
- day rateCost for one workday
- untaxedExempt from government levies
tax free · brown envelope · envelope · handshake · word of mouth · moonlighting · freelance · informal · tips · construction · landscaping · lawn mowing · babysitting · cleaning · moving · bartending · off-the-books · under the radar
- underground economyblack market, shadow economy, off the books, under the table, unreported income
- informal workgig work, side hustle, moonlighting, day labor, freelancing
- hidden incomeunreported income, undeclared, hidden income, off the books, under the table
- black marketblack market, illegal trade, smugglers, contraband, traffickers
- dirty moneydirty money, ill-gotten gains, illicit funds, illicit gains, proceeds of crime
- gig workgig work, gig worker, side hustle, freelancer, freelancing
cash jobsunion job
Position with collective representation
government employment · civil service · contract work · union jobs
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