TED: The Economics Daily

In 2024, 87 percent of full-time employed people worked on an average weekday, compared with 29 percent on an average weekend day. Full-time employed people averaged 8.4 hours of work on weekdays they worked, and 5.6 hours on weekend days they worked.

Alaska's annual average job openings rate was 6.3 percent during 2024. Among other states with the highest job openings rates in 2024 were West Virginia (6.2 percent), and Kentucky, New Mexico, and South Carolina (each 5.8 percent). California, Washington, and Hawaii were among the states with the lowest job openings rates, ranging from 3.6 percent to 4.1 percent. The job openings rate for the nation as a whole averaged 4.7 percent in 2024.

The unemployment rate for veterans (3.0 percent) was little changed from 2023 to 2024, but was lower than the rate for nonveterans (3.9 percent). The unemployment rates for male veterans (2.9 percent) and female veterans (3.5 percent) also changed little over this period.

Median weekly earnings of the nation's 121.5 million full-time wage and salary workers were $1,196 in the second quarter of 2025. This was 4.6 percent higher than a year earlier, compared with a gain of 2.4 percent in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers over the same period. Women had median weekly earnings of $1,078, or 81.1 percent of the $1,330 median for men.