Most Americans can recall weeks when they exceeded the standard 40 hours of work without additional pay— but do they know how those hours add up over a year?
Rebel’s Guide to Project Management, a digital resource for professionals, surveyed 3,000 employees across the U.S., finding that collectively Americans worked 46 billion hours of unpaid overtime last year. On average, employees would tack on 4.5 hours each week without compensation, equating to 233 extra hours per worker annually. But depending on the state the employee works in, those hours — and their lost wages — could be far higher. For example, a California worker worked an average of 13 additional hours each week.
