Table 7. Employed persons working on main job (1) at home and at their workplace and time spent working at each location by class of worker, occupation, and earnings, 2007 annual averages

       Table 7.  Employed persons working on main job (1) at home and at their workplace and time spent working at each location by class of worker,
       occupation, and earnings, 2007 annual averages
       
       (Numbers in thousands)
                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                     
                                                             Employed persons who worked   Employed persons who worked   Employed persons who worked 
                                                                  on an average day          at their workplace on an       at home on an average    
                                                                                                  average day (2)                 day(2) (3)         
                                                    Total                                                                                            
                     Characteristic                employed                                                                                          
                                                                       Percent   Average             Percent   Average             Percent   Average 
                                                              Number      of     hours of   Number   of those  hours of   Number   of those  hours of
                                                                       employed    work                who     work at               who     work at 
                                                                                                      worked  workplace             worked     home  
                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                     
            Class of worker (main job only)                                                                                                          
       Wage and salary workers...................  144,264    99,246     68.8       7.51    88,325     89.0       7.78    15,854     16.0       2.55 
       Self-employed workers.....................   11,137     7,347     66.0       6.68     4,149     56.5       7.40     4,003     54.5       3.98 
                                                                                                                                                     
               Occupation (main job only)                                                                                                            
       Management, business, and financial                                                                                                           
        operations...............................   24,976    18,872     75.6       7.66    14,762     78.2       8.03     6,096     32.3       3.26 
       Professional and related..................   30,116    20,675     68.7       7.27    16,677     80.7       7.78     6,324     30.6       2.65 
       Services..................................   25,576    16,326     63.8       6.92    14,407     88.2       7.14     1,852     11.3       3.21 
       Sales and related.........................   17,469    12,873     73.7       7.15    11,107     86.3       7.48     2,669     20.7       2.63 
       Office and administrative support.........   21,325    13,580     63.7       7.34    12,506     92.1       7.71     1,063      7.8        (5) 
       Farming, fishing, and forestry............     (5)       (5)       (5)        (5)      (5)       (5)        (5)      (5)       (5)        (5) 
       Construction and extraction...............    8,755     6,011     68.7       7.99     5,551     92.4       8.24       640     10.6        (5) 
       Installation, maintenance, and repair.....    5,759     3,994     69.3       8.11     3,814     95.5       8.11       293      7.3        (5) 
       Production................................    9,928     6,607     66.5       8.32     6,468     97.9       8.34       265      4.0        (5) 
       Transportation and material moving........   10,416     6,693     64.3       7.81     6,422     95.9       7.67       404      6.0        (5) 
                                                                                                                                                     
         Earnings of full-time wage and salary                                                                                                       
          workers (main job only) (4)                                                                                                                
                                                                                                                                                     
       0 - $480..................................   28,618    20,904     73.0       7.74    19,806     94.7       7.83     1,252      6.0        (5) 
       $481 - $730...............................   26,778    18,719     69.9       7.97    17,674     94.4       8.16     1,274      6.8       1.68 
       $731 - $1,150.............................   27,639    19,286     69.8       8.07    17,655     91.5       8.31     3,082     16.0       2.01 
       $1,151 and higher.........................   27,432    20,313     74.0       7.94    16,847     82.9       8.40     6,111     30.1       2.47 
       
          1 Includes work at main job only and at locations other than home or workplace.  Excludes travel related to work.
          2 Individuals may have worked at more than one location.
          3 "Working at home" includes any time persons did work at home and it is not restricted to persons whose usual workplace is their home.
          4 These values are based on usual weekly earnings.  Each earnings range represents approximately 25 percent of full-time wage and salary
       workers.
          5 Data not shown where base is less than 1.2 million.
       NOTE:  Data refer to persons 15 years and over.
       
       
       
       
       
       

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