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, 2008 annual averages
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, 2008 annual averages
(Numbers in thousands)
Employed persons who worked Employed persons who worked Employed persons who worked
on an average day on an average weekday on an average Saturday,
Sunday, and holiday (1)
Characteristic Total
employed
Percent Average Percent Average Percent Average
Number of hours of Number(3) of hours of Number(4) of hours of
employed work(2) employed work(2) employed work(2)
Class of worker (main job only)
Wage and salary workers................... 143,898 96,088 66.8 7.58 117,859 81.9 7.89 44,639 31.0 5.64
Self-employed workers..................... 11,170 7,773 69.6 6.43 9,062 81.1 6.81 4,706 42.1 4.70
Occupation (main job only)
Management, business, and financial
operations............................. 24,405 18,295 75.0 7.85 22,449 92.0 8.43 7,978 32.7 3.80
Professional and related.................. 33,260 22,179 66.7 7.16 27,922 84.0 7.60 9,328 28.0 4.25
Services.................................. 26,974 16,622 61.6 6.84 18,734 69.4 6.89 11,075 41.1 6.62
Sales and related......................... 16,961 11,991 70.7 7.59 13,408 79.1 7.99 8,388 49.5 5.96
Office and administrative support......... 19,613 11,751 59.9 7.18 15,902 81.1 7.32 3,748 19.1 6.03
Farming, fishing, and forestry............ (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6)
Construction and extraction............... 9,097 6,246 68.7 8.05 7,659 84.2 8.25 1,967 21.6 (6)
Installation, maintenance, and repair..... 4,610 3,274 71.0 8.38 4,099 88.9 8.59 1,267 27.5 (6)
Production................................ 9,805 6,455 65.8 7.94 8,207 83.7 8.08 2,198 22.4 (6)
Transportation and material moving........ 9,346 6,338 67.8 8.19 7,724 82.7 8.45 3,401 36.4 6.95
Earnings of full-time wage and salary
workers (single jobholders only)(5)
0 - $500.................................. 25,926 17,273 66.6 8.06 21,274 82.1 8.24 8,232 31.8 7.03
$501 - $780............................... 23,205 15,793 68.1 8.07 20,598 88.8 8.25 5,014 21.6 6.40
$781 - $1,210............................. 24,531 17,091 69.7 7.91 21,246 86.6 8.36 7,544 30.8 5.00
$1,211 and higher......................... 24,584 17,979 73.1 8.17 22,427 91.2 8.77 7,704 31.3 4.13
1 Holidays are New Year's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. In 2008, data were
not collected about Christmas Day.
2 Includes work at main job only and excludes travel related to work.
3 Number was derived by multiplying the "Total employed" by the percent of employed persons who worked on an average weekday.
4 Number was derived by multiplying the "Total employed" by the percent of employed persons who worked on an average Saturday, Sunday, and
holiday.
5 These values are based on usual weekly earnings. Each earnings range represents approximately 25 percent of full-time wage and salary
workers who held only one job.
6 Data not shown where base is less than 1.2 million.
NOTE: Data refer to persons 15 years and over.
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Last Modified Date: June 24, 2009
