Table 5. Employed persons working on main job and time spent working on days worked by class of worker, occupation, earnings, and day of week, 2025 annual averages

Table 5. Employed people working on main job and time spent working on days worked by class of worker, occupation, earnings, and day of week, 2025 annual averages [Numbers in thousands]
Characteristic	Total Employed	Employed people who worked on an average day			Employed people who worked on an average weekday			Employed people who worked on an average Saturday, Sunday, and holiday
Characteristic	Total Employed	Number	Percent of employed	Average hours of work	Number(1)	Percent of employed	Average hours of work	Number(2)	Percent of employed	Average hours of work
Class of worker (main job only)
Wage and salary workers	157,249	101,675	64.7	7.67	126,658	80.5	7.99	43,398	27.6	5.52
Self-employed workers(3)	10,150	6,172	60.8	6.14	(4)-	(4)-	6.52	(4)-	(4)-	4.42

Occupation (main job only)
Management, business, and financial operations	32,045	22,718	70.9	7.39	28,503	88.9	7.88	8,999	28.1	3.67
Professional and related	44,354	29,049	65.5	7.47	36,338	81.9	7.86	11,313	25.5	4.38
Service	23,615	14,179	60.0	7.27	16,339	69.2	7.44	8,788	37.2	6.49
Sales and related	13,884	9,318	67.1	7.44	(4)-	(4)-	7.67	(4)-	(4)-	6.42
Office and administrative support	17,356	10,759	62.0	7.87	14,038	80.9	8.09	4,122	23.7	6.34
Farming, fishing, and forestry	(4)-	(4)-	(4)-	7.29	(4)-	(4)-	7.37	(4)-	(4)-	(4)-
Construction and extraction	6,192	(4)-	(4)-	7.93	(4)-	(4)-	8.27	848	13.7	4.81
Installation, maintenance, and repair	5,493	(4)-	(4)-	8.59	(4)-	(4)-	8.81	(4)-	(4)-	(4)-
Production	8,690	4,786	55.1	8.26	(4)-	(4)-	8.25	(4)-	(4)-	8.27
Transportation and material moving	12,722	7,877	61.9	7.99	(4)-	(4)-	8.33	(4)-	(4)-	6.39

Usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers (single jobholders only)(5)
$0 - $840	28,678	18,632	65.0	7.89	23,122	80.6	8.01	7,343	25.6	7.01
$841 - $1,320	27,537	18,720	68.0	8.20	24,034	87.3	8.34	6,903	25.1	7.17
$1,321 - $2,020	27,912	18,261	65.4	8.10	24,221	86.8	8.49	6,332	22.7	5.11
$2,021 and higher	27,813	20,526	73.8	8.13	25,618	92.1	8.62	6,765	24.3	3.04
Footnotes (1) Number was derived by multiplying the "Total employed" by the percent of employed people who worked on an average weekday. (2) Number was derived by multiplying the "Total employed" by the percent of employed people who worked on an average Saturday, Sunday, and holiday. (3) Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are unincorporated. Self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated are classified as wage and salary workers. (4) Estimate is suppressed because it does not meet the American Time Use Survey publication standards. (5) The earnings data are limited to wage and salary workers (both incorporated and unincorporated self-employed workers are excluded). Each earnings range represents approximately 25 percent of full-time wage and salary workers who held only one job.
NOTE: Includes work at main job only and excludes travel related to work. Data refer to people 15 years and over.

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Last Modified Date: June 25, 2026