Heres How Many Years Youll Spend at Work in Your Lifetime

Heres How Many Years Youll Spend at Work in Your Lifetime People only spend 328 days socializing with friends, on average, over the course of a lifetime. However, the average person spends 13 years and two months at work, according to one analysis fromHuffPost Australia.If that seems startling, skipiste on to your hat. Here are a few other lifetime work statistics that you should knowHow many times will you change jobs?These days, people changes jobs about 10 to 15 times over the course of their career. On average, workers go through12 job changesduring a lifetime.How much mora do men earn?Thegender pay gaphas a major impact on lifetime earnings. Based on the current wage gap, women earn, on average, $403,440 less over the course of their lives than their male peers, according to theNational Womens Law Center. For black women, the losses are $867,920 on average. Latina women lose $1,056,120 because of the wage gap.Will you really earn more if you go to college?Yes. There is a signifi cant correlation betweeneducation and lifetime earnings. Men with bachelors degrees earn roughly $900,000 more over the course of their careers than high school graduates. Women with bachelors degrees earn $630,000 more.Those with graduate degrees earn even more $1.1 million more for women and $1.5 million more for men.How much time will you spend working?On average, people now spend approximately13 years and two monthsof their lives at work. If you often put in overtime, you can factor in an additional year and two months. The average worker spends nearly a quarter of their time on the job during a typical 50-year stint of employment.How much time will you spend working from home?These days, thanks to email and other technologies, workers often feel pressured to stay connected to their jobs even when theyre at home. A Canadian survey found that workers, on average, spend5.3 hours a weekchecking work emails from home. Thirty percent of the time, work emails arent urgent or important , according to the same survey.The amount of time workers put in at home varies significantly by industry. But, workers from the marketing and advertising industry have been found to invest the fruchtwein time. According to a recentreport, they spend 6.3 hours per week.How long do most people stay at a job?Workers spend, on average,4.2 yearsworking at a job before moving on. Workers in management, professional and other related occupations had the highest tenure 5.0 years. Folks who work in service occupations had the lowest average tenure at just 2.9 years.--This article originally appeared in PayScale.