Manufacturing overtime hours Fall to $4.00 an hour

Manufacturing overtime hours fall 2.4% in September 2026 to $4.00 an hour and up 5.3% from a year earlier.

• September 2026: $4.00 an hour
• on the month: -2.4%
• on the year: +5.3%

The print sits 75% of the way up the archived range of $3.70 an hour (June 2025) to $4.10 an hour (June 2026), with the standing trend rising.

The year-over-year comparison is against September 2025, which printed $3.80 an hour. Source: BLS Current Employment Statistics. The number above is the agency's published value, unrounded; the history and any later revisions stay queryable on the live data page.