Table 7. Employed persons working on main job at home, workplace, and time spent working at each location by class of worker, occupation, and earnings, 2024 annual averages

Table 7. Employed persons working on main job at home, workplace, and time spent working at each location by class of worker, occupation, and earnings, 2024 annual averages [Numbers in thousands]
Characteristic	Total Employed	Employed persons who worked on an average day			Employed persons who worked at their workplace on an average day(1)			Employed persons who worked at home on an average day(1)(2)
Characteristic	Total Employed	Number	Percent of employed	Average hours of work	Number	Percent of those who worked	Average hours of work at workplace	Number	Percent of those who worked	Average hours of work at home
Class of worker (main job only)
Wage and salary workers	161,157	103,513	64.2	7.59	76,196	73.6	7.77	31,172	30.1	5.30
Self-employed workers(3)	11,273	7,197	63.8	6.38	3,939	54.7	6.94	(4)-	(4)-	4.00

Occupation (main job only)
Management, business, and financial operations	31,374	22,176	70.7	7.67	13,421	60.5	7.71	10,670	48.1	5.79
Professional and related	48,324	31,756	65.7	7.39	19,198	60.5	7.94	14,753	46.5	4.98
Service	28,485	15,726	55.2	7.11	13,714	87.2	7.22	1,657	10.5	4.41
Sales and related	13,800	8,818	63.9	7.43	6,327	71.8	7.60	2,819	32.0	5.23
Office and administrative support	15,738	9,499	60.4	7.45	7,123	75.0	7.61	2,536	26.7	5.72
Farming, fishing, and forestry	(4)-	(4)-	(4)-	7.19	(4)-	(4)-	8.21	(4)-	(4)-	5.23
Construction and extraction	7,967	5,297	66.5	7.35	4,785	90.3	7.65	875	16.5	2.17
Installation, maintenance, and repair	5,002	(4)-	(4)-	7.60	(4)-	(4)-	7.72	(4)-	(4)-	(4)-
Production	8,849	5,841	66.0	8.70	5,413	92.7	8.84	484	8.3	(4)-
Transportation and material moving	11,186	7,335	65.6	7.78	6,554	89.4	7.62	426	5.8	3.09

Usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers (single jobholders only)(5)
$0 - $840	28,317	19,508	68.9	7.92	17,453	89.5	7.91	2,593	13.3	4.78
$841 - $1,250	28,023	18,818	67.2	8.05	14,173	75.3	8.40	4,881	25.9	5.35
$1,251 - $1,970	27,215	18,042	66.3	8.00	12,945	71.8	8.21	6,414	35.6	5.60
$1,971 and higher	27,837	19,363	69.6	7.91	11,175	57.7	8.04	9,879	51.0	5.88
Footnotes (1) Individuals may have worked at more than one location. (2) Working at home includes any time persons did work at home and is not restricted to persons whose usual workplace is their home. (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 at locations other than home or workplace. Excludes travel related to work. Data refer to persons 15 years and over.

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