How many hours a week do you work?

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Just this. How many hours a week do you work?

39, a few hours overtime per week but I’m paid for that too.

35

Around 40-45

Exact same here

32 over 4 days

42 basic spread over 2 jobs both WFH so I'm around for school runs. Sometimes have to travel so I do more hours then and sometimes there's overtime going at one job so I do as much as I can. DH is in a very skilled but low paid job so I have to carry us!

37.5 hours per week paid. Realistically another 10-15 hours on top, unpaid (NHS Manager).

It definitely happens. I broke down my former hours in an earlier post, which often approached 80. I counted my minimum 7-6 day in work as 11 continuous hours at least, as there was no break. Then the evening hours and weekend hours on top.

37

9 to 5 Monday to Thursday, 9 to 4.30 on Friday, with a 30 minute lunch break. I do not and would not do any extra unpaid hours. Salary just under £23k.

42.5 hours in the office and maybe 5 extra per week. A couple of times a year I'll do 50+ a week but that's rare now I have a good team that I can delegate to.

I'm paid for 32.5. I actively work around 20. There's simply not enough work for FT, for any of us. We are skeleton staff but extremely efficient and always available to send boss info as he needs it.

But taking your own breakdown, it doesn't add up to 80.

I did hours approaching that. In school for 7/7.30. Left 6/7. Worked straight through. Often after-school meetings/twilight insets and piles of marking/planning. Often lunchtime duties and ‘working lunches’. Started again at 9 and worked until 11/ midnight every night but Friday. Usually took Saturday off, worked through Sunday.

Let's say 11 hours in school X 5, so 55, then 2.5 X 4 for the evenings, takes it to 65. If you then worked say 8 hours on Sunday, that's taken it to 73. Which is a lot, don't get me wrong but it's a full normal length working day short of 80.

And my guess is that there will also have been the occasional time you took an evening or full weekend off for a special occasion so on average it was probably lower

I know a lot of teachers and none of them work anything like those hours. I have also worked in schools in the past and again those kind of hours just weren't happening. It's only on mumsnet that I ever hear of the 80 hour a week teachers.

I agree with this. Teachers claiming to work 170 hours a week - never sleep, never do anything else, the most exhausted ever - back at work after 6 weeks off and completely burnt out. I don't buy it, never have, but I'm likely to get deleted as a different opinion is not allowed on MN.

I said ‘approaching that’, as opposed to it being ‘more like 50’. And was working on the proviso of 11 x 5 = 55. Often 60 though. 4 X 3 = 12 for evenings. Already regularly up to 72. Then all day Sunday until I went to bed. And no, sadly. No weekends away or evenings out , didn’t even celebrate my own birthday. Even when a dear friend I hadn’t seen for years was in the area, I had to say no to meeting up as it was mid-week. Even if that had been the case, it would have been cancelled out by the times I was required to be at school until at least 9 for parents’ evenings, plays, drop-offs post trips etc. Anything social was largely reserved for holidays and even then had to be fitted around the work I had if it was a short holiday. Usually had to go away with the school for at least two weeks a year during holiday time too. Hence why I left. Not saying this just to moan, but to give a sense of how bad it can truly get for people in some schools, as I do understand the incredulity. I wouldn’t have believed it either until I lived it 🤪

@ScotchPine but this just illustrates the point - you're rounding up at every point - 9-11/12 has become 3 hours every time for your calculation. And still only "approaching" 80, that's what makes the PP's post frankly unbelievable.

No one is saying it's not hard work, just that 80 is someone exaggerating - quite possibly unconsciously but still exaggerating

@ScotchPine I think you've overcooked your eggs to the extent no-one believes you. If you'd been more realistic, instead of wildly over exaggerating you're much more likely to have been believed.

My personal opinion is that teachers don't actually work that hard at all but do moan about it an awful lot. Just my opinion and I don't expect anyone to share.

38, with commuting I'm out 10 hours a day. I get paid just over minimum wage.

40 and I'm always knackered.

Contracted for 37.5. Do about 15-20?

My hours are annualised. So my contract says 600 hours (i have more than one) So some weeks i dont work at all and other weeks i work a lot. There is no annual leave entitlement in the 600 hours, thats paid on top. So its not 600 hours, but i i only work 580 because of annual leave. I just get an uplift in my hourly rate to reflect it.

If i did a normal 5 day a week for 52 weeks less statutory annual leave, it would be like working 25 hours a week for 46.4 weeks of the year.

Should add that I don’t believe ridiculous hours are unique to teaching. Friends in the legal field routinely work monstrous hours, as did my husband in the corporate sector. At least they were paid handsomely, but it doesn’t make up for the impact on private and family life. And then there are NHS staff, whom I support wholeheartedly in their quest for improved pay and conditions. And others I haven’t mentioned. They all have my sympathies.

Anyway, sorry to detail the thread a bit. To answer the question - about 40 hours now. Often overtime in busy periods, but taken as TOIL.

And apologies - I misread your message where you said a 60 hour week was more like 50, not that a teaching week was.

70 film industry, it’s brutal

@Usernamen it was daily, not time to time. The workload and paperwork is insane.