How many hours does the average American work per year?

Well, There are typically:

40 hours in a work week, times

X 52 weeks in a fiscal year, that's

2080 average hours per full-time work year.

(Side note: Then you have your work-a-holics, like myself, who work a full-time job, plus pull overtime at their full-time job, plus have a part-time job, and pick up side-jobs. I work (on average) 75-80 hours a week. Two weeks ago, I actually hit 89 hours at my full-time job alone.)