In October 2024, the average working week for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls in the United States was at 34.3 hours. This includes part-time workers. The data have been seasonally adjusted. Employed persons consist of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls. U.S. working week As in most industrialized countries, the standard work week in the United States begins on Monday and ends on Friday. According to data released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average workweek for all employees (including part-time) working in private industries in the United States amounted to about 34.5 hours in 2022. Over the course of one month, the U.S. workforce works about 3.9 billion hours in total.The average work week can differ heavily from industry to industry. An employee in the mining and logging industry worked about 45.5 hours a week in April 2023, while employees in private education and health services worked for an average of 33.4 hours per week.

The average number of weekly working hours in the United States has remained relatively steady over the last years. The highest value for the recorded period was in 2021, when U.S. workers worked an average of 34.7 hours a week. The lowest value was in 2009, following the financial crisis when workers worked 33.8 hours on average.

This statistic shows the annual average of the length of a working week in the United States, for all employees from 2007 to 2023. Employed persons consist of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls. The average working week for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was at 34.4 hours in 2023.

Average Weekly Hours in the United States remained unchanged at 34.10 Hours in February. This dataset provides - United States Average Weekly Hours - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news.

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In the United States, the average working week for all employees on private nonfarm payrolls was at 34.3 hours in October 2024. The data have been seasonally adjusted. Employed persons consist of all employees on private nonfarm payrolls.

The statistic provides information on the average hours worked by full-time and part-time employees in the United States from 2001 to 2014. In 2014, full-time employees worked about 46.7 hours per week on average, and part-time employees about 26 hours.

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Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, average work weeks in the U.S. were consistently longer than those in the Soviet Union. In 1970, non-agricultural workers in the U.S. worked 3.4 hours per week longer than their Soviet counterparts, and this gap increased to 4.2 hours in 1988. The gap was even wider in agriculture, where work weeks in the U.S. were 5.2 hours longer in 1970, and 3.8 hours longer in 1988.

Additionally, this data is for wage and salary workers in the U.S. only, as very few in the Soviet Union could have been considered self-employed given the socialist economic system. The gap between work weeks increases significantly when Soviet figures are compared with self-employed workers in the U.S., where average work weeks in 1970 for those in agriculture were 51 hours, and for those in non-agricultural work they were 45 hours, although both dropped to 47.5 and 41 respectively by 1988.

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United States - Manufacturing Sector: Average Weekly Hours Worked for All Employed Persons was 0.40000 % Chg. From Qtr. 1 Yr. Ago in October of 2021, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Manufacturing Sector: Average Weekly Hours Worked for All Employed Persons reached a record high of 4.40000 in April of 2021 and a record low of -5.00000 in April of 2020. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Manufacturing Sector: Average Weekly Hours Worked for All Employed Persons - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on March of 2025.

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According to a survey from 2023, physicians in the United States worked an average of 50 hours per week. However, physicians in three specialties, critical care, general surgery, and cardiology worked on average over 55 hours a week. In comparison, the average working week of all U.S. workers amounted to 34.4 hours in 2023.

The statistic provides information on the average hours worked by full-time employees in the United States, based on pay structure. In 2014, about 25 percent of salary workers worked 50 to 59 hours per week

United States - Nonfarm Business Sector: Average Weekly Hours Worked for All Employed Persons was -0.10000 % Chg. From Qtr. 1 Yr. Ago in October of 2021, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - Nonfarm Business Sector: Average Weekly Hours Worked for All Employed Persons reached a record high of 2.40000 in April of 2021 and a record low of -2.10000 in October of 1957. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - Nonfarm Business Sector: Average Weekly Hours Worked for All Employed Persons - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on March of 2025.