The type of work in which adolescents are involved may also influence their probability of graduating from high school. McNeal (199) found that students in certain job types were less likely to drop out than nonworkers. Yet, he also found that school year workers are more likely to drop out of high school than nonworkers. Namely, students who do less than 14 hours per week of baby-sitting, lawnwork, odd jobs, and farming work in the tenth grade were found to be significantly less likely to dropout than nonworkers. Workers in manufacturing, service, and "other" job industries were more likely to drop out than nonworkers. Retail jobs were not found significantly associated with likelihood to drop out for males or females. These findings remained after controls for GPA, overall achievement, family structure, retention, extracurricular involvement, gender, race, and SES. For analyses of occupational groupings, number of hours worked was added as a control.