Poll shows 90 percent of college graduates fully employed

Under Gallup’s calculations, a member of the work force is fully employed if he or she has a full-time position under someone else, works for himself or herself full-time or works part-time and is uninterested in a full-time job.

In all, 73 percent of Americans with a college or postgraduate degree have a full-time job under another employer. But fewer than 6 in 10 of those with a high-school degree or less are employed full time.

{mosads}In other demographic groups, around 85 percent of those ages 30-49 and 50-64 are fully employed, Gallup says.

Those ages 65 and up are by far the least likely, at around 30 percent, to work full-time for an employer, but are also by far the most likely (41 percent) to be satisfied with a part-time job. In all, Gallup considers 84 percent of Americans 65 and older in the workforce to be fully employed.

On the other end of the spectrum, 18- to 29-year-olds are the most likely to be underemployed, with 30 percent of the age group fitting that description. Only six in 10 in the age group have full-time employment in any capacity, Gallup found.

Women were more than twice as likely as men to be comfortable with only part-time employment, while men were much more likely to be employed full-time.

Non-Hispanic whites are also more likely to be fully employed than either blacks or Hispanics.