What percentage of a person's life is spent working?

Question

Also, do you know any Websites that gives this statistic of what percentage of life is spent working?

Answer 1

If your question indicates working of a person when employed,the period spent in working by a person does not exceed 16% of his life. That is why, because childhool, school and college life as well as the retired life has not to be counted towards the official working life. But, if we go for the total working life of a person he/she has to spend 12 to 16 hours a day after he gets maturity. Although it comes to 50% to 67% of life, but still In that case, childhood, young boy's life, as well as incapacity of the old age the percentage of working life may not go beyond an average of 33% to 35%.

Answer 2

Assuming you live to be 100 and you begin working at age 20 for 40 hours per week for 50 weeks out of the year (2 weeks vacation) and retire at age 65.

45 years worked
50 weeks per year
40 hours per week
90,000 hours worked

100 years lived
365 days per year
24 hours per day
876,000 hours lived

90/876 = 10.3% of your total living hours are spent working

If you assume you sleep 7 hours per day you can subtract 255,500 hours from your total life, leaving 620,500 hours lived awake

90/620.5 = 14.5% of your total waking hours are spent working

You may need to make minor adjustments for lunch breaks and commute time, and holidays.

Answer 3

Think about it for a minute. You can't know that for an individual without knowing how long the person lives. Also, some are lazy, can't find jobs, or otherwise are away from work.

Answer 4

Try labor dept. You may have to dig deep into there statistics.