The decline, by my math, is from 55 hours to 50 hours a week. edit: Oops, that 5 hour decline is for the highest 10% of workers, not the highest 10% of earners

The decline, by my math, is from 55 hours to 50 hours a week. edit: Oops, that 5 hour decline is for the highest 10% of workers, not the highest 10% of earners. Given that they are discussing the hours worked by people making 90th percentile income, I wonder how much of the shift is due to changes in the population that ends up being in the top 10% (there's similar declines in the 80th and 70th deciles, which sort of points away from that concern). The guy in the article cutting back to 60-70 was and still is an outlier (during short weeks, still a long workday a week more than the mean).