Table 3.
US work-from-home pre-coronavirus crisis, by income group
Source: www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/flex2.pdf, accessed September 2, 2020
| Job flexibilities and work schedules—2017 to 2018 | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Time Use Survey | ||||||||
| Usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers (single jobholders only) | ||||||||
| Earnings <= 25th percentile | Earnings from 25th to 50th percentiles | Earnings from 50th to 75th percentiles | Earnings greater than 75th percentile | |||||
| Millions of workers | Percent | Millions of workers | Percent | Millions of workers | Percent | Millions of workers | Percent | |
| Could work from home | 2 | 9 | 5 | 20 | 10 | 37 | 17 | 61 |
| Did work from home | 2 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 9 | 32 | 15 | 56 |
| Total workers | 25 | 27 | 27 | 27 | ||||