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, 2015 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, 2015 annual averages [Numbers in thousands]
Characteristic Total Employed Employed persons who worked on an average day Employed persons who worked on an average weekday Employed persons who worked on an average Saturday, Sunday, and holiday
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

 144,820 96,599 66.7 7.62 119,217 82.3 7.94 44,801 30.9 5.63

Self-employed workers(3)

 11,788 8,370 71.0 6.59 9,693 82.2 7.00 4,672 39.6 4.22

Occupation (main job only)(4)

Management, business, and financial operations

 26,128 19,026 72.8 7.52 23,737 90.8 8.02 7,618 29.2 3.74

Professional and related

 39,491 26,921 68.2 7.22 33,051 83.7 7.76 12,644 32.0 3.95

Service

 25,733 15,666 60.9 7.19 18,405 71.5 7.24 9,433 36.7 6.98

Sales and related

 15,679 10,191 65.0 7.76 12,091 77.1 8.03 6,217 39.6 6.69

Office and administrative support

 18,230 12,220 67.0 7.52 15,134 83.0 7.62 3,993 21.9 6.47

Farming, fishing, and forestry

 1,132 (5)- (5)- 8.22 (5)- (5)- 8.47 (5)- (5)- 7.14

Construction and extraction

 7,456 5,019 67.3 8.18 6,596 88.5 8.40 1,610 21.6 6.26

Installation, maintenance, and repair

 4,442 3,184 71.7 8.00 3,787 85.2 8.33 (5)- (5)- 5.86

Production

 8,695 5,686 65.4 8.13 7,473 85.9 8.42 2,112 24.3 6.08

Transportation and material moving

 9,881 6,409 64.9 8.05 7,702 77.9 8.36 3,550 35.9 6.55

Earnings of full-time wage
and salary workers
(single jobholders only)(6)

$0 - $560

 25,605 17,152 67.0 8.01 20,767 81.1 8.11 8,551 33.4 7.45

$561 - $870

 25,388 17,296 68.1 8.18 22,056 86.9 8.38 6,141 24.2 6.50

$871 - $1,380

 25,045 17,586 70.2 8.17 21,992 87.8 8.48 6,785 27.1 5.70

$1,381 and higher

 25,450 18,618 73.2 7.93 23,570 92.6 8.55 7,819 30.7 3.85

Footnotes
 (1) Number was derived by multiplying the "Total employed" by the percent of employed persons who worked on an average weekday.
(2) Number was derived by multiplying the "Total employed" by the percent of employed persons 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) These values were generated using the 2010 Census occupational classification system which was introduced with the 2011 estimates. Estimates are not strictly
comparable to those from earlier years.
(5) Estimate is suppressed because it does not meet the American Time Use Survey publication standards.
(6) These values are based on usual weekly earnings. 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 persons 15 years and over.

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