Table 5. Employed persons working (1) on main job and time spent working on days worked by class of worker, occupation, earnings, and day of
week, 2011 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
Characteristic Total
employed
Percent Average Percent Average Percent Average
Number of hours of Number (2) of hours of Number (3) of hours of
employed work employed work employed work
Class of worker (main job only)
Wage and salary workers................... 139,058 93,326 67.1 7.62 113,625 81.7 7.93 44,910 32.3 5.72
Self-employed workers (4)................. 9,965 6,352 63.7 6.54 7,212 72.4 7.02 4,151 41.7 4.39
Occupation (main job only) (5)
Management, business, and financial
operations............................. 23,525 17,499 74.4 7.86 21,936 93.2 8.39 7,034 29.9 4.01
Professional and related.................. 34,315 23,461 68.4 7.26 28,803 83.9 7.70 10,856 31.6 4.53
Service................................... 27,015 16,484 61.0 7.14 18,467 68.4 7.28 11,621 43.0 6.57
Sales and related......................... 15,467 11,052 71.5 7.21 12,344 79.8 7.45 7,655 49.5 6.19
Office and administrative support......... 18,628 12,247 65.7 7.48 15,416 82.8 7.67 5,004 26.9 6.16
Farming, fishing, and forestry............ (7) (7) (7) 8.53 (7) (7) 8.55 (7) (7) (7)
Construction and extraction............... 7,815 4,794 61.3 8.26 5,988 76.6 8.34 1,217 15.6 7.04
Installation, maintenance, and repair..... 5,349 3,690 69.0 8.21 4,811 89.9 8.48 1,342 25.1 6.20
Production................................ 7,865 4,926 62.6 8.22 6,310 80.2 8.51 2,018 25.7 6.30
Transportation and material moving........ 8,399 5,219 62.1 8.13 6,399 76.2 8.42 2,342 27.9 6.21
Earnings of full-time wage and salary
workers (single jobholders only) (6)
$0 - $520................................. 24,083 16,346 67.9 7.92 20,003 83.1 8.12 7,747 32.2 6.70
$521 - $810............................... 23,911 17,134 71.7 8.10 21,474 89.8 8.32 6,566 27.5 6.34
$811 - $1,240............................. 23,882 16,508 69.1 8.17 20,659 86.5 8.44 5,954 24.9 5.73
$1,241 and higher......................... 23,866 17,017 71.3 8.16 21,323 89.3 8.78 7,650 32.1 4.39
1 Includes work at main job only and excludes travel related to work.
2 Number was derived by multiplying the "Total employed" by the percent of employed persons who worked on an average weekday.
3 Number was derived by multiplying the "Total employed" by the percent of employed persons who worked on an average Saturday, Sunday, and
holiday.
4 Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are unincorporated. Self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated are
classified as wage and salary workers.
5 2011 estimates mark the introduction of the 2010 Census occupational classification system into the American Time Use Survey. This
classification system is derived from the 2010 Standard Occupational Classification (SOC). No historical data have been revised. Data for 2011
are not strictly comparable with earlier years.
6 These values are based on usual weekly earnings. 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.
7 Estimate is suppressed because it does not meet the American Time Use Survey publication standards.
NOTE: Data refer to persons 15 years and over.
United States Department of Labor
