Labor

Manufacturing overtime hours

Name: Manufacturing overtime hours — U.S. manufacturing data
Creator: MFG Calcs
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

As of Jun 2026, manufacturing overtime hours stands at 4.1 hours/week (BLS Current Employment Statistics), rising over the recent window.

What this measures and why it matters

Manufacturing overtime hours reflects the cost and availability of the workforce that runs a plant. Loaded shop rates, quoting, and make-versus-buy decisions all trace back to labor economics, so this series is a direct input to how work gets priced and where it gets done.
The figure comes from BLS Current Employment Statistics and is reported in hours/week. MFG Calcs archives every published value, so the chart and table below show the full recorded history rather than a single snapshot, and they extend automatically as new data lands.

Latest reading: 4.1 hours/week for Jun 2026.
Prior period: 4.0 (May 2026), a rise of 0.10.
Compared with a year earlier, manufacturing overtime hours is up 10.8%.
Across the archived window the high was 4.1 in Jun 2026 and the low was 3.7 in Jun 2025.
The series has moved up for 1 consecutive periods.
13 observations have been archived so far, and this page deepens automatically each time BLS Current Employment Statistics publishes a new figure.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.