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, 2008 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, 2008 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................... 143,898 96,088 66.8 7.58 85,115 88.6 7.87 16,361 17.0 2.50
Self-employed workers..................... 11,170 7,773 69.6 6.43 3,954 50.9 6.96 4,299 55.3 4.08
Occupation (main job only)
Management, business, and financial
operations............................. 24,405 18,295 75.0 7.85 14,311 78.2 8.33 5,459 29.8 3.18
Professional and related.................. 33,260 22,179 66.7 7.16 17,575 79.2 7.72 7,129 32.1 2.54
Services.................................. 26,974 16,622 61.6 6.84 14,522 87.4 7.09 2,163 13.0 3.67
Sales and related......................... 16,961 11,991 70.7 7.59 10,309 86.0 7.84 2,914 24.3 2.84
Office and administrative support......... 19,613 11,751 59.9 7.18 10,563 89.9 7.53 1,444 12.3 2.11
Farming, fishing, and forestry............ (5) (5) (5) (5) (5) (5) (5) (5) (5) (5)
Construction and extraction............... 9,097 6,246 68.7 8.05 6,003 96.1 8.19 343 5.5 (5)
Installation, maintenance, and repair..... 4,610 3,274 71.0 8.38 3,149 96.2 8.53 300 9.2 (5)
Production................................ 9,805 6,455 65.8 7.94 6,106 94.6 8.21 358 5.5 (5)
Transportation and material moving........ 9,346 6,338 67.8 8.19 5,903 93.1 8.01 464 7.3 (5)
Earnings of full-time wage and salary
workers (single jobholders only) (4)
0 - $500.................................. 25,926 17,273 66.6 8.06 16,308 94.4 8.07 1,384 8.0 (5)
$501 - $780............................... 23,205 15,793 68.1 8.07 15,098 95.6 8.20 1,187 7.5 1.77
$781 - $1,210............................. 24,531 17,091 69.7 7.91 15,334 89.7 8.29 2,788 16.3 1.97
$1,211 and higher......................... 24,584 17,979 73.1 8.17 14,990 83.4 8.59 5,559 30.9 2.46
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 who held only one job.
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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Last Modified Date: June 24, 2009
