Hours worked 2010 - 2023

Description	Hours worked is the total number of hours actually worked per year divided by the average number of people in employment per year. Hours excluded include time not worked because of public holidays, annual paid leave, own illness, injury and temporary disability, maternity leave, parental leave, schooling or training, slack work for technical or economic reasons, strike or labour dispute, bad weather, compensation leave and other reasons. The data cover employees and self-employed workers. The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in sources and methods of calculation.
Unit of measure	Absolute number

Description

Hours worked is the total number of hours actually worked per year divided by the average number of people in employment per year. Hours excluded include time not worked because of public holidays, annual paid leave, own illness, injury and temporary disability, maternity leave, parental leave, schooling or training, slack work for technical or economic reasons, strike or labour dispute, bad weather, compensation leave and other reasons. The data cover employees and self-employed workers. The data are intended for comparisons of trends over time; they are unsuitable for comparisons of the level of average annual hours of work for a given year, because of differences in sources and methods of calculation.

Unit of measure

Absolute number

Source: Oecd

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	United States
2010	1,810
2011	1,819
2012	1,826
2013	1,824
2014	1,829
2015	1,830
2016	1,822
2017	1,820
2018	1,826
2019	1,817
2020	1,789
2021	1,813
2022	1,804
2023	1,799

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