This indicator tracks stated participation in occupations based in natural environments in the Puget Sound, such as commercial or charter fishing, farming, forestry, habitat restoration, or outdoor-recreation jobs.

• Nearly 14 percent of Puget Sound residents participated in nature-based work in 2020. For the purposive Latinx sample, about 36 percent said they worked outside .
• Work weeks spanned from less than 5 hours/week (4 percent of the random sample) to more than 30 hours per week (2 percent of the random sample).
• Both the percentage of residents engaging in outdoor work and the average number of hours doing that work decreased since the 2018 survey.