Graph and download economic data for Manufacturing Sector: Average Weekly Hours for All Workers (PRS30006021) from Q1 1988 to Q4 2024 about productivity, sector, average, hours, manufacturing, rate, and USA.

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.

Graph and download economic data for Business Sector: Average Weekly Hours for All Workers (PRS84006021) from Q1 1948 to Q4 2024 about productivity, sector, average, hours, business, rate, and USA.

This dataset contains annual average CES data for California statewide and areas from 1990 to 2023.

The Current Employment Statistics (CES) program is a Federal-State cooperative effort in which monthly surveys are conducted to provide estimates of employment, hours, and earnings based on payroll records of business establishments. The CES survey is based on approximately 119,000 businesses and government agencies representing approximately 629,000 individual worksites throughout the United States.

CES data reflect the number of nonfarm, payroll jobs. It includes the total number of persons on establishment payrolls, employed full- or part-time, who received pay (whether they worked or not) for any part of the pay period that includes the 12th day of the month. Temporary and intermittent employees are included, as are any employees who are on paid sick leave or on paid holiday. Persons on the payroll of more than one establishment are counted in each establishment. CES data excludes proprietors, self-employed, unpaid family or volunteer workers, farm workers, and household workers. Government employment covers only civilian employees; it excludes uniformed members of the armed services.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) of the U.S. Department of Labor is responsible for the concepts, definitions, technical procedures, validation, and publication of the estimates that State workforce agencies prepare under agreement with BLS.

United States Avg Weekly Hours: PW: Professional & Business data was reported at 35.400 Hour in Jun 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 35.200 Hour for May 2018. United States Avg Weekly Hours: PW: Professional & Business data is updated monthly, averaging 34.600 Hour from Jan 1964 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 654 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 37.700 Hour in Aug 1964 and a record low of 33.000 Hour in Jan 1996. United States Avg Weekly Hours: PW: Professional & Business data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.G039: Current Employment Statistics Survey: Average Weekly Hours: Production Workers.

United States Avg Weekly Hours: PW: Mfg: Wood Pdt data was reported at 42.200 Hour in Jun 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 41.700 Hour for May 2018. United States Avg Weekly Hours: PW: Mfg: Wood Pdt data is updated monthly, averaging 40.800 Hour from Jan 1990 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 342 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 43.400 Hour in May 2013 and a record low of 35.700 Hour in Jan 2009. United States Avg Weekly Hours: PW: Mfg: Wood Pdt data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.G039: Current Employment Statistics Survey: Average Weekly Hours: Production Workers.

Graph and download economic data for Average Weekly Hours of All Employees: Total Private in California (SMU06000000500000002) from Jan 2007 to Jan 2025 about hours, CA, private, employment, and USA.

United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg: Non Durable data was reported at 41.500 Hour in Jun 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 41.600 Hour for May 2018. United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg: Non Durable data is updated monthly, averaging 39.800 Hour from Jan 1939 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 954 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 43.300 Hour in Oct 1944 and a record low of 36.200 Hour in Jan 1982. United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg: Non Durable data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.G040: Current Employment Statistics Survey: Average Weekly Hours: Production Workers: Seasonally Adjusted.

VITAL SIGNS INDICATOR Jobs by Wage Level (EQ1)

FULL MEASURE NAME Distribution of jobs by low-, middle-, and high-wage occupations

LAST UPDATED January 2019

DESCRIPTION Jobs by wage level refers to the distribution of jobs by low-, middle- and high-wage occupations. In the San Francisco Bay Area, low-wage occupations have a median hourly wage of less than 80% of the regional median wage; median wages for middle-wage occupations range from 80% to 120% of the regional median wage, and high-wage occupations have a median hourly wage above 120% of the regional median wage.

DATA SOURCE California Employment Development Department OES (2001-2017) http://www.labormarketinfo.edd.ca.gov/data/oes-employment-and-wages.html

American Community Survey (2001-2017) http://api.census.gov

CONTACT INFORMATION vitalsigns.info@bayareametro.gov

METHODOLOGY NOTES (across all datasets for this indicator) Jobs are determined to be low-, middle-, or high-wage based on the median hourly wage of their occupational classification in the most recent year. Low-wage jobs are those that pay below 80% of the regional median wage. Middle-wage jobs are those that pay between 80% and 120% of the regional median wage. High-wage jobs are those that pay above 120% of the regional median wage. Regional median hourly wages are estimated from the American Community Survey and are published on the Vital Signs Income indicator page. For the national context analysis, occupation wage classifications are unique to each metro area. A low-wage job in New York, for instance, may be a middle-wage job in Miami. For the Bay Area in 2017, the median hourly wage for low-wage occupations was less than $20.86 per hour. For middle-wage jobs, the median ranged from $20.86 to $31.30 per hour; and for high-wage jobs, the median wage was above $31.30 per hour.

Occupational employment and wage information comes from the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program. Regional and subregional data is published by the California Employment Development Department. Metro data is published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The OES program collects data on wage and salary workers in nonfarm establishments to produce employment and wage estimates for some 800 occupations. Data from non-incorporated self-employed persons are not collected, and are not included in these estimates. Wage estimates represent a three-year rolling average.

Due to changes in reporting during the analysis period, subregion data from the EDD OES have been aggregated to produce geographies that can be compared over time. West Bay is San Mateo, San Francisco, and Marin counties. North Bay is Sonoma, Solano and Napa counties. East Bay is Alameda and Contra Costa counties. South Bay is Santa Clara County from 2001-2004 and Santa Clara and San Benito counties from 2005-2017.

Due to changes in occupation classifications during the analysis period, all occupations have been reassigned to 2010 SOC codes. For pre-2009 reporting years, all employment in occupations that were split into two or more 2010 SOC occupations are assigned to the first 2010 SOC occupation listed in the crosswalk table provided by the Census Bureau. This method assumes these occupations always fall in the same wage category, and sensitivity analysis of this reassignment method shows this is true in most cases.

In order to use OES data for time series analysis, several steps were taken to handle missing wage or employment data. For some occupations, such as airline pilots and flight attendants, no wage information was provided and these were removed from the analysis. Other occupations did not record a median hourly wage (mostly due to irregular work hours) but did record an annual average wage. Nearly all these occupations were in education (i.e. teachers). In this case, a 2080 hour-work year was assumed and [annual average wage/2080] was used as a proxy for median income. Most of these occupations were classified as high-wage, thus dispelling concern of underestimating a median wage for a teaching occupation that requires less than 2080 hours of work a year (equivalent to 12 months fulltime). Finally, the OES has missing employment data for occupations across the time series. To make the employment data comparable between years, gaps in employment data for occupations are ‘filled-in’ using linear interpolation if there are at least two years of employment data found in OES. Occupations with less than two years of employment data were dropped from the analysis. Over 80% of interpolated cells represent missing employment data for just one year in the time series. While this interpolating technique may impact year-over-year comparisons, the long-term trends represented in the analysis generally are accurate.

United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg: Food data was reported at 41.500 Hour in Jun 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 41.800 Hour for May 2018. United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg: Food data is updated monthly, averaging 40.000 Hour from Jan 1990 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 342 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 42.300 Hour in Jul 2017 and a record low of 38.300 Hour in Jan 1996. United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg: Food data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.G040: Current Employment Statistics Survey: Average Weekly Hours: Production Workers: Seasonally Adjusted.

United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: Mfg: Plastics & Rubber Pdt data was reported at 40.600 Hour in Oct 2018. This records a decrease from the previous number of 41.000 Hour for Sep 2018. United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: Mfg: Plastics & Rubber Pdt data is updated monthly, averaging 41.100 Hour from Mar 2006 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 152 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 42.000 Hour in Aug 2015 and a record low of 38.800 Hour in Jun 2009. United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: Mfg: Plastics & Rubber Pdt data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.G038: Current Employment Statistics Survey: Average Weekly Hours: Seasonally Adjusted.

Graph and download economic data for Average Weekly Hours of All Employees: Total Private in Puerto Rico (SMU72000000500000002A) from 2013 to 2024 about average, hours, private, and employment.

United States Agg Weekly Hours: Overtime: sa: PW: Mfg: Durable data was reported at 4.700 Hour in Oct 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 4.600 Hour for Sep 2018. United States Agg Weekly Hours: Overtime: sa: PW: Mfg: Durable data is updated monthly, averaging 3.800 Hour from Jan 1956 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 754 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 5.600 Hour in Dec 1997 and a record low of 1.600 Hour in May 1958. United States Agg Weekly Hours: Overtime: sa: PW: Mfg: Durable data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G040: Current Employment Statistics Survey: Average Weekly Hours: Production Workers: Seasonally Adjusted.

United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg: Furniture & Related Pdt data was reported at 39.200 Hour in Jun 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 39.100 Hour for May 2018. United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg: Furniture & Related Pdt data is updated monthly, averaging 39.100 Hour from Jan 1990 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 342 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 41.600 Hour in Jul 2014 and a record low of 35.300 Hour in Jan 1996. United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg: Furniture & Related Pdt data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.G040: Current Employment Statistics Survey: Average Weekly Hours: Production Workers: Seasonally Adjusted.

United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg data was reported at 42.100 Hour in Oct 2018. This stayed constant from the previous number of 42.100 Hour for Sep 2018. United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg data is updated monthly, averaging 40.600 Hour from Jan 1939 (Median) to Oct 2018, with 958 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 45.700 Hour in Nov 1943 and a record low of 37.000 Hour in May 1939. United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G040: Current Employment Statistics Survey: Average Weekly Hours: Production Workers: Seasonally Adjusted.

United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg: Textiles Mills data was reported at 42.400 Hour in Jun 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 41.900 Hour for May 2018. United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg: Textiles Mills data is updated monthly, averaging 41.000 Hour from Jan 1990 (Median) to Jun 2018, with 342 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 43.400 Hour in Feb 2015 and a record low of 36.200 Hour in Mar 2009. United States Avg Weekly Hours: sa: PW: Mfg: Textiles Mills data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The data is categorized under Global Database’s USA – Table US.G040: Current Employment Statistics Survey: Average Weekly Hours: Production Workers: Seasonally Adjusted.

Graph and download economic data for Average Weekly Hours of All Employees: Total Private in North Carolina (SMU37000000500000002A) from 2007 to 2024 about hours, NC, private, employment, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Average Weekly Hours of Production and Nonsupervisory Employees, Construction (CES2000000007) from Jan 1947 to Feb 2025 about nonsupervisory, establishment survey, hours, construction, production, employment, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Average Weekly Hours of All Employees: Total Private in Florida (SMU12000000500000002A) from 2007 to 2024 about hours, FL, private, employment, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, Total Private (CEU0500000003) from Mar 2006 to Feb 2025 about earnings, average, establishment survey, hours, wages, private, employment, and USA.