Highest Earning, Educated Workers Most Likely to Work Remote

The more income a person makes and the higher educated they are, the more likely they are to work from home, according to 2023 data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and U.S. Census Bureau. The highest educated workers – those with a bachelor’s degree or higher – reported both the highest incomes and the highest likelihood to work from home. In 2023, this cohort of employed people earned just shy of $90,000 per year, on average, and over 50% reported they worked remotely. Those with some college earned on average about $57,000 per year in 2023 and about 27% of this cohort worked remotely. Employed people with a high school degree, but no college had median earnings of nearly $49,000 per year in 2023 and only a 22% likelihood to work from home. Those with no high school diploma had median earnings of $37,000 per year in 2023 and only an 11% likelihood to work from home.