About Telework.org and our methodology
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Sources and vintages
- US Census Bureau, American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates, 2020 to 2024. Tables B08301 (means of transportation to work), B08013 (aggregate travel time to work) and B08006 (sex of workers by means of transportation). Used for every state, county and metro figure.
- ACS 2019 1-year estimates, table B08301, for the pre-pandemic comparison on state pages. This is a different survey product from the 5-year series, so the change since 2019 is indicative.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), May 2024, national and state files, for employment and wages by occupation.
- Dingel and Neiman (2020), "How many jobs can be done at home?", Journal of Public Economics, for teleworkability scores by occupation.
- BLS Employment Projections 2025 to 2035, Table 5.4, for typical entry education, related work experience and on-the-job training.
- BEA Regional Price Parities by state, 2024, all items, with US average prices equal to 100. Puerto Rico has no index.
- O*NET 31.0 Database, for related occupations and job zones. Job zones summarize preparation from 1 (little or none) to 5 (extensive).
How we calculate the figures
- Work from home % = workers who worked from home (B08301_021) divided by all workers aged 16+ (B08301_001).
- Drove alone % and public transit % (excluding taxicab) use the same denominator.
- Mean commute = aggregate travel time (B08013_001) divided by workers who did not work from home.
- Men and women working from home come from table B08006.
- US figures on this site are calculated by adding the published counts for the 50 states and DC. Puerto Rico is shown separately and ranked alongside the states.
- Teleworkable means Dingel and Neiman classified the occupation as able to be done at home. The share is the proportion of underlying detailed job titles judged teleworkable.
- Wages: when BLS top-codes a wage, we show "$239,200 or more".
What we do not do
We never impute or estimate missing values. A blank in the source is shown as "Not available". ACS figures are survey estimates with margins of error, which we do not display; small counties can have large sampling error.
Update schedule
We review the data each year after the Census Bureau releases new ACS 5-year estimates (usually in December) and after BLS publishes new OEWS estimates (usually in spring). Guides are reviewed at the same time. Last reviewed October 2026.
Corrections
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Pay rankings use only teleworkable occupations. State pay and adjusted wages are taken from the supplied data; blank or suppressed figures remain unavailable. Salary bands use national median wages. Salary conversion is salary × destination RPP / origin RPP. A step-up occupation is related work with a higher median wage, not a promised promotion. Federal datasets are public domain; O*NET information is licensed under CC BY 4.0.
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