Average Annual Hours Actually Worked per Worker: United States
The latest reading SOTW holds for United States is 1,800.2 hours per worker per year for 2025, from OECD.
Reviewed series · Labor · Annual · hours per worker per year · OECD.HOURS.ACTUAL.A · USA
Includes employees and self-employed and all jobs. OECD states these data are unsuitable for comparing annual levels across countries because national sources and calculation methods differ; use for trends within an economy. Definition: https://www.oecd.org/en/data/indicators/hours-worked.html OECD Data Terms section 3 permits commercial reuse with attribution except separately restricted or third-party-owned data; no additional restriction was identified in the pinned flow metadata reviewed 2026-10-10. Collection time is not an original publication timestamp. Source observation flags and reference periods are retained.
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- Latest
- 1,800.2
- hours per worker per year · 2025
- Previous
- 1,795.9
- hours per worker per year · 2024
- Earliest held
- 1,879.8
- hours per worker per year · 2000
- Readings shown
- 26
- Every reading SOTW holds
United States · history
hours per worker per year · Annual
Readings, newest first
| Period | Value (hours per worker per year) |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,800.2 |
| 2024 | 1,795.9 |
| 2023 | 1,805.0 |
| 2022 | 1,809.9 |
| 2021 | 1,818.8 |
| 2020 | 1,799.8 |
| 2019 | 1,822.6 |
| 2018 | 1,825.7 |
| 2017 | 1,820.4 |
| 2016 | 1,822.4 |
| 2015 | 1,831.1 |
| 2014 | 1,830.4 |
| 2013 | 1,825.4 |
| 2012 | 1,827.1 |
| 2011 | 1,820.3 |
| 2010 | 1,810.4 |
| 2009 | 1,798.8 |
| 2008 | 1,830.4 |
| 2007 | 1,841.9 |
| 2006 | 1,846.8 |
| 2005 | 1,842.1 |
| 2004 | 1,845.1 |
| 2003 | 1,844.1 |
| 2002 | 1,854.0 |
| 2001 | 1,859.9 |
| 2000 | 1,879.8 |
Source: OECD. All 26 readings held, 2000 to 2025. n/a means the source value is missing or withheld.