Average Weekly Hours of All Employees, Construction

Average weekly hours relate to the average hours per worker for which pay was received and is different from standard or scheduled hours. Factors such as unpaid absenteeism, labor turnover, part-time work, and stoppages cause average weekly hours to be lower than scheduled hours of work for an establishment. Group averages further reflect changes in the workweek of component industries. Average weekly hours are the total weekly hours divided by the employees paid for those hours. Construction employees in the construction sector include: Working supervisors, qualified craft workers, mechanics, apprentices, helpers, laborers, and so forth, engaged in new work, alterations, demolition, repair, maintenance, and the like, whether working at the site of construction or in shops or yards at jobs (such as precutting and preassembling) ordinarily performed by members of the construction trades. The series comes from the 'Current Employment Statistics (Establishment Survey).' The source code is: CES2000000002

Cite as: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Average Weekly Hours of All Employees, Construction [AWHAECON], retrieved from FRED, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AWHAECON. This product uses the FRED® API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.