malemployed

English

Etymology

From mal- +‎ employed.

Adjective

malemployed (not comparable)

1. Employed in a job for which one is overqualified or overeducated, usually a job that does not pay as much as one wants or expects.
   • 2013 October 2, Rana Foroohar, “Forget Unemployment, Time to Worry About ‘Mal-Employment’”, in Time:

     Mal-employed college grads earn half of what their degree-appropriately employed peers do, a difference that adds up to tens of thousands of dollars per year, and millions over a lifetime.

See also

• malemployment
• unemployed
• underemployed