How much depends on where they live. That disparity reflects not only the world’s differing safety nets, but also what governments are doing right now to stem the crisis.

Denmark, for example, has promised to cover 75 percent to 90 percent of salaries if businesses do not lay off their employees — an effort to avoid paying for the disruptions caused by mass unemployment. Britain and South Korea, among other countries, are taking a similar line.

But in the U.S., where health care is not guaranteed, many workers could be left far more vulnerable — even if Congress eventually passes a proposed $2 trillion relief bill.

Quotable: “I don’t know what I’m going to do,” said Jose Luis Candia, a father of three who lost his two jobs busing tables at high-end Manhattan restaurants. “Oh my God.”

Related: The crisis has exposed the economic fragility of ride-hailing drivers, food delivery couriers and other gig economy workers in Europe and the U.S.