The survey cited is doing something weird with its measurement. It says 44% of full time IT workers do 40 or less in a week, and another 22% do 41-49. That puts

The survey cited is doing something weird with its measurement. It says 44% of full time IT workers do 40 or less in a week, and another 22% do 41-49. That puts the median likely somewhere around 43h. That 54h number must be the mean and include those people that like to brag about truly crazy hours. This matches my experience- most of the time it’s about 43h a week, sometimes it’s more, and very occasionally (once per year or less) you might as well not go home.