United States Average Weekly Hours

Average weekly hours for all employees on US private nonfarm payrolls increased by 0.1 hour to 34.5 hours in March 2019, offsetting a decline of 0.1 hour in February. In manufacturing, the average workweek was unchanged in March at 40.7 hours, while overtime decreased by 0.1 hour to 3.4 hours. The average workweek for production and nonsupervisory employees on private nonfarm payrolls rose by 0.1 hour to 33.7 hours. Average Weekly Hours in the United States averaged 34.35 Hours from 2006 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 34.60 Hours in August of 2014 and a record low of 33.70 Hours in June of 2009.

Average Weekly Hours in the United States is expected to be 34.50 Hours by the end of this quarter, according to Trading Economics global macro models and analysts expectations. Looking forward, we estimate Average Weekly Hours in the United States to stand at 34.50 in 12 months time. In the long-term, the United States Average Weekly Hours is projected to trend around 34.40 Hours in 2020, according to our econometric models.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2019-01-04	01:30 PM	Average Weekly Hours	34.5	34.4	34.5	34.3
2019-02-01	01:30 PM	Average Weekly Hours	34.5	34.5	34.5	34.5
2019-03-08	01:30 PM	Average Weekly Hours	34.4	34.5	34.5	34.5
2019-04-05	12:30 PM	Average Weekly Hours	34.5	34.4	34.5	34.5
2019-05-03	12:30 PM	Average Weekly Hours		34.4	34.5	34.4
2019-06-07	12:30 PM	Average Weekly Hours
2019-07-05	12:30 PM	Average Weekly Hours				34.5

United States Labour	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Unemployment Rate	3.80	3.80	10.80	2.50	percent	[+]
Non Farm Payrolls	196.00	33.00	1118.00	-1959.00	Thousand	[+]
Nonfarm Payrolls Private	182.00	28.00	1092.00	-811.00	Thousand	[+]
Government Payrolls	14.00	5.00	427.00	-260.00	Thousand	[+]
Manufacturing Payrolls	-6.00	1.00	572.00	-519.00	Thousand	[+]
Initial Jobless Claims	192.00	197.00	695.00	162.00	Thousand	[+]
Continuing Jobless Claims	1653.00	1716.00	6635.00	988.00	Thousand	[+]
ADP Employment Change	129.00	197.00	360.00	-706.00	Thousand	[+]
Employed Persons	156748.00	156949.00	156949.00	57635.00	Thousand	[+]
Unemployed Persons	6211.00	6235.00	15352.00	1596.00	Thousand	[+]
Average Hourly Earnings	0.10	0.40	0.60	-0.20	percent	[+]
Average Weekly Hours	34.50	34.40	34.60	33.70	Hours	[+]
Labor Force Participation Rate	63.00	63.20	67.30	58.10	percent	[+]
Long Term Unemployment Rate	0.80	0.78	4.40	0.08	percent	[+]
Youth Unemployment Rate	8.80	8.90	19.50	7.80	percent	[+]
Labour Costs	109.78	109.25	109.78	17.00	Index Points	[+]
Productivity	106.10	105.61	106.10	26.03	Index Points	[+]
Job Vacancies	6708.00	7484.00	7484.00	2132.00	Thousand	[+]
Job Offers	7087.00	7625.00	7626.00	2264.00	Thousand	[+]
Challenger Job Cuts	60587.00	76835.00	248475.00	15100.00	Persons	[+]
Wages	23.24	23.18	23.24	2.50	USD/Hour	[+]
Wage Growth	4.20	4.24	13.78	-5.88	percent	[+]
Wages in Manufacturing	21.93	21.91	21.94	1.27	USD/Hour	[+]
Minimum Wages	7.25	7.25	7.25	0.25	USD/Hour	[+]
Employment Cost Index	0.70	0.80	1.60	0.20	percent	[+]
Population	325.72	323.41	325.72	76.09	Million	[+]
Retirement Age Women	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Retirement Age Men	66.00	66.00	66.00	66.00		[+]
Employment Rate	60.60	60.70	64.70	55.00	percent	[+]
Full Time Employment	129969.00	130159.00	130159.00	64640.00	Thousand	[+]
Part Time Employment	26938.00	26878.00	28134.00	10086.00	Thousand	[+]
Living Wage Family	2380.00	2270.00	2380.00	2160.00	USD/Month	[+]
Living Wage Individual	1660.00	1560.00	1660.00	1450.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages High Skilled	4520.00	4330.00	4950.00	4330.00	USD/Month	[+]
Wages Low Skilled	1960.00	1760.00	2340.00	1760.00	USD/Month	[+]

United States Average Weekly Hours

Average weekly hours are the total weekly hours divided by the employees paid for those hours. Unpaid absenteeism, labor turnover, part-time work, and stoppages cause average weekly hours to be lower than scheduled hours of work for an establishment. This page provides - United States Average Weekly Hours - actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. United States Average Weekly Hours - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on April of 2019.