The TUC’s analysis of the Labour Force Survey has shown that UK workers gave their employers £31.5 billion of unpaid overtime last year. More than five million people put in an average of 7.7 hours extra work a week in unpaid overtime in 2015. This would add up to £6,114 a year each if they were paid the average wage for those hours. The TUC study reveals that men work 1.1 billion unpaid overtime hours a year, compared to 0.9 billion hours for women. The most unpaid overtime is done by teachers and education professionals, with more than half of them working an average of 11.9 hours unpaid every week. This is followed by financial institution managers at 11.2 hours, production managers at 10.3 hours and HR managers at 10.1 hours. 

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