Bureau of Labor Statistics
Table 5. Employed persons working on main job and time spent working on days worked by class of worker, occupation, earnings, and day of week, 2007 annual averages
Table 5. Employed persons working on main job and time spent working on days worked by class of worker, occupation, earnings, and day of
week, 2007 annual averages
(Numbers in thousands)
Employed persons who worked Employed persons who worked Employed persons who worked
on an average day on an average weekday on an average Saturday,
Sunday, and holiday (1)
Characteristic Total
employed
Percent Average Percent Average Percent Average
Number of hours of Number of hours of Number of hours of
employed work (2) (3) employed work (2) (4) employed work (2)
Class of worker (main job only)
Wage and salary workers................... 144,264 99,246 68.8 7.51 120,343 83.4 7.84 47,967 33.2 5.55
Self-employed workers..................... 11,137 7,347 66.0 6.68 8,592 77.2 7.00 4,657 41.8 5.37
Occupation (main job only)
Management, business, and financial
operations............................... 24,976 18,872 75.6 7.66 22,639 90.6 8.26 9,177 36.7 3.79
Professional and related.................. 30,116 20,675 68.7 7.27 25,342 84.1 7.70 9,895 32.9 4.71
Services.................................. 25,576 16,326 63.8 6.92 18,916 74.0 7.07 10,589 41.4 6.29
Sales and related......................... 17,469 12,873 73.7 7.15 14,799 84.7 7.47 8,343 47.8 5.81
Office and administrative support......... 21,325 13,580 63.7 7.34 16,858 79.1 7.50 4,835 22.7 5.80
Farming, fishing, and forestry............ (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6) (6)
Construction and extraction............... 8,755 6,011 68.7 7.99 7,403 84.6 8.12 2,394 27.3 (6)
Installation, maintenance, and repair..... 5,759 3,994 69.3 8.11 5,167 89.7 8.43 1,479 25.7 (6)
Production................................ 9,928 6,607 66.5 8.32 8,439 85.0 8.41 1,950 19.6 (6)
Transportation and material moving........ 10,416 6,693 64.3 7.81 8,225 79.0 7.97 3,265 31.3 6.89
Earnings of full-time wage and salary
workers (main job only) (5)
0 - $480.................................. 28,618 20,904 73.0 7.74 24,868 86.9 7.92 11,093 38.8 6.70
$481 - $730............................... 26,778 18,719 69.9 7.97 23,268 86.9 8.18 6,690 25.0 6.10
$731 - $1,500............................. 27,639 19,286 69.8 8.07 24,118 87.3 8.31 7,920 28.7 6.37
$1,501 and higher......................... 27,432 20,313 74.0 7.94 24,393 88.9 8.69 10,927 39.8 4.10
1 Holidays are New Year’s Day, Easter, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. Data were not
collected about New Year’s Day in 2007.
2 Includes work at main job only and excludes travel related to work.
3 Number was derived by multiplying the "Total employed" by the percent of employed persons who worked on an average weekday.
4 Number was derived by multiplying the "Total employed" by the percent of employed persons who worked on an average Saturday, Sunday, and
holiday.
5 These values are based on usual weekly earnings. Each earnings range represents approximately 25 percent of full-time wage and salary
workers.
6 Data not shown where base is less than 1.2 million.
NOTE: Data refer to persons 15 years and over.
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Last Modified Date: June 25, 2008
