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, 2010 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, 2010 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(3) of hours of Number(4) of hours of
employed work(2) employed work(2) employed work(2)
Class of worker (main job only)
Wage and salary workers................... 135,964 92,042 67.7 7.50 111,068 81.7 7.84 45,820 33.7 5.50
Self-employed workers(5).................. 11,654 7,483 64.2 6.63 8,628 74.0 7.00 4,572 39.2 4.86
Occupation (main job only)
Management, business, and financial
operations............................. 23,670 17,817 75.3 7.70 21,814 92.2 8.41 8,563 36.2 3.52
Professional and related.................. 35,408 24,365 68.8 7.13 29,445 83.2 7.58 11,357 32.1 4.17
Services.................................. 24,517 15,059 61.4 7.03 16,727 68.2 7.10 11,062 45.1 6.75
Sales and related......................... 14,964 10,732 71.7 7.16 11,624 77.7 7.44 8,313 55.6 6.07
Office and administrative support......... 17,835 11,145 62.5 7.23 14,174 79.5 7.44 3,577 20.1 5.25
Farming, fishing, and forestry............ (7) (7) (7) 5.83 (7) (7) 6.10 (7) (7) (7)
Construction and extraction............... 7,256 4,502 62.0 8.14 5,814 80.1 8.16 1,063 14.6 7.93
Installation, maintenance, and repair..... 5,380 3,930 73.1 7.93 4,963 92.3 8.13 1,678 31.2 6.70
Production................................ 9,060 6,313 69.7 8.25 7,952 87.8 8.44 2,230 24.6 6.59
Transportation and material moving........ 8,651 5,185 59.9 8.34 6,638 76.7 8.51 2,335 27.0 7.42
Earnings of full-time wage and salary
workers (single jobholders only)(6)
0 - $540.................................. 23,302 16,138 69.3 7.84 19,115 82.0 7.96 8,878 38.1 7.21
$541 - $810............................... 22,864 15,793 69.1 8.09 19,895 87.0 8.34 6,274 27.4 6.24
$811 - $1,230............................. 22,405 16,294 72.7 8.01 19,927 88.9 8.45 6,973 31.1 4.75
$1,231 and higher......................... 22,905 16,887 73.7 8.11 20,980 91.6 8.69 6,978 30.5 3.85
(1) Holidays are New Year's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, the Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. In 2010, data were
not collected for the Fourth of July.
(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) Includes self-employed workers whose businesses are unincorporated. Self-employed workers whose businesses are incorporated are
classified as wage and salary workers.
(6) 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.
(7) Estimate is suppressed because it does not meet the American Time Use Survey standard for quality and reliability.
NOTE: Data refer to persons 15 years and over.
