Habits
How much of your life do you spend working?
~90,000 hours
How much of your life do you spend working?
The average person works approximately 90,000 hours over their lifetime — about a third of their waking life. A full-time worker in a 40-year career spends the equivalent of 10.5 years at work. Americans work about 400 more hours per year than Germans and 200 more than Britons.
Source: OECD Labour Statistics (2023); Bureau of Labor Statistics