Quintana Roo Works 62.8 Hours Weekly

Chetumal, Quintana Roo — Quintana Roo and Yucatán, with 62.8 and 59.9 hours of work per week respectively, are above the national average of 59.6 hours dedicated by the population, while Campeche registered 58.3 hours, according to the National Survey on Time Use (ENUT) from the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (Inegi).

The three states with the highest total working time were Hidalgo with 65.6 hours per week, Querétaro with 64.2, and Durango with 64.1. The states that registered the lowest workloads were Chihuahua with 54.4 hours, Sinaloa with 55.7, and Baja California with 56.6.

On the peninsula, the population of Quintana Roo works an average of 8.9 hours each day, Yucatán 8.5 hours, and Campeche 8.3 hours.

Inegi stated that for 2024, the total working time for the population aged 12 and over was 59.6 hours per week. On average, women dedicated 3.1 hours more than men: 61.1 and 58 hours, respectively.

The ENUT generates statistical information on the activities performed by people aged 12 and over during the reference week, as well as the time they dedicated to them, and it measures both paid and unpaid work.

For 2024, 98.3 percent of the population participated in unpaid domestic, care, community, and volunteer work activities, and almost a quarter, 23.5 percent, in the production of goods for self-consumption.

Regarding the modality of work for the market, it was identified that among the employed or wage-earning population who worked during the reference week, 94.9 percent worked in person; 1.6 percent did so virtually; and 3.5 percent worked in a hybrid manner.