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In 1997, about 30 percent of men and 15 percent of women usually worked more than 44 hours per week. Among men, those working as physicians or as clergy had the longest workweeks at an average of 52 hours. Among women, those working as physicians had the longest workweeks at 49 hours.
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Other occupations where males averaged 50 or more hours worked per week were extractive occupations, farmworkers, firefighting occupations, and managers of food serving and lodging establishments.
Other occupations where females averaged 45 or more hours worked per week were lawyers, teachers at colleges and universities, managers of marketing, advertising, and public relations companies, and managers of food serving and lodging establishments.
These data are a product of the Current Population Survey. More information may be obtained from "How hours of work affect occupational earnings", Monthly Labor Review, October 1998.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Physicians work the longest weeks at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/1998/dec/wk4/art03.htm (visited December 06, 2024).