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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Graph and download economic data for Average Annual Hours Worked by Persons Engaged for United States (AVHWPEUSA065NRUG) from 1950 to 2019 about hours, labor force, labor, persons, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Average Weekly Hours of All Employees, Professional and Business Services (AWHAEPBS) from Mar 2006 to Feb 2025 about professional, establishment survey, hours, business, services, employment, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Average Hours of Work Per Week Per Wage Earner, All Male, Twenty-Five Manufacturing Industries for United States (M08030USM065NNBR) from Jun 1920 to Apr 1944 about males, hours, wages, manufacturing, industry, and USA.

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.

Graph and download economic data for Average Hours of Work Per Week, Production Workers, Manufacturing, Nondurable Goods for United States (M08264USM065NNBR) from Jan 1932 to Feb 1962 about nondurable goods, workers, hours, production, goods, manufacturing, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for Average Hours of Work Per Week, Class I Railroad Employees, All Wage-Earners for United States (M08J4AUSM065NNBR) from Jul 1921 to Jun 1943 about railroad, hours, employment, and USA.

United States TMOS: Average Workweek: Decrease data was reported at 44.700 % in Apr 2020. This records an increase from the previous number of 31.200 % for Mar 2020. United States TMOS: Average Workweek: Decrease data is updated monthly, averaging 14.300 % from Jun 2004 (Median) to Apr 2020, with 191 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 49.500 % in Mar 2009 and a record low of 3.700 % in Jul 2018. United States TMOS: Average Workweek: Decrease data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.S016: Texas Manufacturing Outlook Survey.

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.

Current Average Employee Workweek; Diffusion for New York was -2.50000 Index in March of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Current Average Employee Workweek; Diffusion for New York reached a record high of 33.50000 in April of 2004 and a record low of -63.20000 in April of 2020. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Current Average Employee Workweek; Diffusion for New York - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on March of 2025.

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.

Graph and download economic data for Nonfarm Business Sector: Average Weekly Hours for All Workers (PRS85006023) from Q1 1947 to Q4 2024 about sector, nonfarm, hours, business, and USA.

United States Diffusion Index: New York Fed: Average Workweek data was reported at 1.500 NA in Nov 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of -2.500 NA for Oct 2018. United States Diffusion Index: New York Fed: Average Workweek data is updated monthly, averaging 2.000 NA from Jul 2001 (Median) to Nov 2018, with 209 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 29.200 NA in May 2004 and a record low of -31.000 NA in Feb 2009. United States Diffusion Index: New York Fed: Average Workweek data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.S009: Empire State Manufacturing Survey.

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.

Current Average Employee Workweek; Percent Reporting Increases for New York was 15.00% in March of 2022, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, Current Average Employee Workweek; Percent Reporting Increases for New York reached a record high of 35.50 in April of 2004 and a record low of 3.00 in December of 2015. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for Current Average Employee Workweek; Percent Reporting Increases for New York - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on March of 2025.

Japan Avg Weekly Hours of Work: NA: Government: National Government Servi data was reported at 42.400 Hour in May 2018. This records an increase from the previous number of 39.800 Hour for Apr 2018. Japan Avg Weekly Hours of Work: NA: Government: National Government Servi data is updated monthly, averaging 42.700 Hour from Jan 2007 (Median) to May 2018, with 131 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 45.400 Hour in Jun 2008 and a record low of 33.600 Hour in Dec 2013. Japan Avg Weekly Hours of Work: NA: Government: National Government Servi data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Statistical Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s Japan – Table JP.G033: Labour Force Survey: Average and Aggregate Weekly Hours of Work: Japan Standard Industrial Classification 12th Rev.