Table 7. Employed persons working on main job at home, workplace, and time spent working at each location by class of worker, occupation, and earnings, 2021 annual averages

Table 7. Employed persons working on main job at home, workplace, and time spent working at each location by class of worker, occupation, and earnings, 2021 annual averages [Numbers in thousands]
Characteristic	Total Employed	Employed persons who worked on an average day			Employed persons who worked at their workplace on an average day(1)			Employed persons who worked at home on an average day(1)(2)
Characteristic	Total Employed	Number	Percent of employed	Average hours of work	Number	Percent of those who worked	Average hours of work at workplace	Number	Percent of those who worked	Average hours of work at home
Class of worker (main job only)
Wage and salary workers	151,864	102,490	67.5	7.74	71,134	69.4	7.84	37,531	36.6	5.71
Self-employed workers(3)	10,283	6,491	63.1	6.41	3,132	48.2	7.22	2,944	45.3	4.98

Occupation (main job only)
Management, business, and financial operations	30,512	22,320	73.2	7.82	10,799	48.4	8.01	13,173	59.0	6.26
Professional and related	43,432	29,144	67.1	7.54	15,467	53.1	7.83	16,478	56.5	5.51
Service	24,463	15,295	62.5	7.14	13,579	88.8	7.18	1,977	12.9	3.87
Sales and related	12,620	8,527	67.6	7.37	6,120	71.8	7.48	2,947	34.6	5.19
Office and administrative support	16,369	10,157	62.1	7.67	7,061	69.5	7.81	3,490	34.4	6.08
Farming, fishing, and forestry	2,481	(4)-	(4)-	8.12	(4)-	(4)-	8.84	(4)-	(4)-	7.24
Construction and extraction	8,077	5,068	62.7	7.89	4,727	93.3	7.99	514	10.2	(4)-
Installation, maintenance, and repair	4,272	2,910	68.1	8.26	2,620	90.0	8.44	395	13.6	4.00
Production	9,357	6,140	65.6	8.56	5,906	96.2	8.54	462	7.5	3.88
Transportation and material moving	10,747	7,942	73.9	7.89	7,109	89.5	7.87	528	6.6	5.82

Usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers (single jobholders only)(5)
$0 - $690	27,220	19,165	70.4	7.92	17,026	88.8	8.01	2,960	15.4	4.11
$691 - $1,080	28,040	18,628	66.4	8.08	14,129	75.8	8.27	5,508	29.6	5.58
$1,081 - $1,730	27,268	19,164	70.3	8.22	11,817	61.7	8.41	8,482	44.3	6.20
$1,731 and higher	27,376	20,483	74.8	8.49	10,252	50.1	8.52	12,238	59.7	6.65
Footnotes (1) Individuals may have worked at more than one location. (2) Working at home includes any time persons did work at home and is not restricted to persons whose usual workplace is their home. (3) Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are unincorporated. Self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated are classified as wage and salary workers. (4) Estimate is suppressed because it does not meet the American Time Use Survey publication standards. (5) The earnings data are limited to wage and salary workers (both incorporated and unincorporated self-employed workers are excluded). Each earnings range represents approximately 25 percent of full-time wage and salary workers who held only one job.
NOTE: Includes work at main job only and at locations other than home or workplace. Excludes travel related to work. Data refer to persons 15 years and over.

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Last Modified Date: February 13, 2025