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What percentage of working Americans worked 50 or more hours last week?
21.1% of working Americans worked 50 or more hours last week - about 21 in every 100, or 2 in 10. That is the figure published by the General Social Survey for 2024.
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Where this number comes from
- Survey
- General Social Survey
- What it measured
- GSS 2024 item HRS1 (“Number of hours worked last week”), counting responses hrs1 >= 50. Computed from NORC's public-use microdata with the survey weight WTSSNRPS and a Taylor-linearised standard error over the published design variables VSTRAT and VPSU; unweighted n = 1,768.
- Population
- working U.S. adults
- Year
- 2024
- 95% confidence interval
- 18.48% to 23.72% (derived from the published standard error)
NORC at the University of Chicago; public-use microdata, free for research and educational use. Percentages computed here, with attribution.. See the source data
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