Americans work an average of 39.5 hours per week, longer than any other OECD country. The average salary is $37,128. Countries with longer working hours include Greece, Mexico, and South Korea. South Korea had the highest annual working hours, but the government has implemented limits to curb overwork. 40% of American men born after 1956 work more than 40 hours a week.
The average full-time civilian employee in the United States works approximately 39.5 hours a week, which equates to just over 2,000 hours a year, and earns $37,128 US dollars annually. Americans work longer hours than those in all seven other Economic Development Organization (OECD) countries, including the United Kingdom, which has an average workweek of 36.4 hours; Germany, which has an average working week of 35.7 hours; France, which has an average working week of 38 hours; and the Netherlands, which have an average working week of 30 hours.
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Countries that have longer working hours than the US include Greece, where people work an average of 42 hours a week; Mexico, which has an average workweek of 43 hours; and South Korea, where people work an average of 45.9 hours a week. The OECD country with the highest average weekly working hours in 2010 was Turkey, where people worked an average of 49.3 hours a week.
Although South Koreans worked the most hours per year of any OECD citizen, annual working hours in South Korea decreased by more than 60 hours from 2007 to 2008. This is partly due to government limits on hours of work to help curb overwork.
A 2010 study by the Center for American Progress found that about 40 percent of American men born after 1956 work more than 40 hours a week, and that many of them consider it a “part-time” job to work 40 hours a week.
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