Significantly less. Wanted a job? Walk through any neighborhood being built with a tape measure in your pocket. You'd have a job doing something before you made it past the 4th house. Had a car? Delivering food paid enough to afford a modest apartment.

A popular comedy skit in the '90s was around the notion that people had more jobs than they wanted.

1999 was basically ~full employment in the US. Most people who wanted to work had a job.