Editor. I picked 1-5 but it varies - this week it will (inshallah) be zero, last week was an hour or two a day; rarely more than about 10 hours a week because I just can’t maintain the level of focus needed beyond about 2 extra hours a day.
I’m a Knowledge Management Specialist (yeah, I don’t know either) and I am contracted to work 37.5 hours a week.
I probably do a bit more than that, working through lunches, etc, when required, but overall I don’t do a lot of overtime. I’m new in the job though, so I imagine once I’ve got a few more projcets on the go, my work hours will increase, but I wouldn’t expect to do a lot of overtime, as work/life balance is seen as very important in my organisation.
I’m a paralegal at a civil defense law firm, and none. The higher-ups are very strict about being on time, regardless of anything else - even if you stayed five hours late the previous night, you get an angry e-mail if you’re not at your desk at 9:01 the next morning. So I don’t bother.
Aren’t paralegals by definition required to be paid for overtime? Or is that a state-by-state thing?
None. I’m a hospital librarian.
That’s federal, but depends on whether the paralegal is fulfilling a managerial function, etc. In my experience, it’s often abused. My old firm decided that because paralegals, by definition, cannot do legal work without attorney oversight, they didn’t fall under the learned professional exemption unless, for example, they were serving primarily in a client management role.
However, being on time to work the day after working late and being paid for overtime are two different things.
But yeah, sounds like you should look into whether you are required to be paid for overtime.
P.S. I’m a paralegal, and I don’t generally do a lot of overtime, but when I do, I’m always paid for it. Once I was out of town for comptuer training that ran through Saturday, and my return flight didn’t arrive home until 1:00 am. My boss (who is also a labor lawyer) paid me for all that time.
Eva Luna, Immigration Paralegal
I put 16-20, although it is probably more.
I’m a teacher.
My entire waking day is pretty much prep, grading, reading - plus teachers’ meetings, student one-on-one and studying new trends and software.
My SO once only half joked and said with the time I put in, I am getting about 50 cents per hour at this job.
I envy people who can leave work and go home and have a life.
I put 1-5, but it really varies.
I’m a software engineer. Most days I work until at least 5. Then I continue working until I reach a good stopping point – I finish whatever function I’m working on, or I come to some sort of conclusion on whatever problem I’m debugging.
But sometimes, when there’s a looming deadline, I work much longer. Late into the evening, even several hours on weekends.
Fortunately, when I work really long hours I can take comp time during the slack period that follows.
Typically, none. At times, mainly year and quarter ends, many.
Teacher here. I picked 11 - 15. I easily put in an extra 2 hours each school day and then several more each weekend. I only get a few hours free each school day. Much of that is taken up tutoring students. Add in time to eat lunch, lesson planning, creating and grading assessments, meetings with my team, IEP meetings, and numerous other tasks and there’s just not enough time in the school day to get it all done. I go in at 7:15 and count myself lucky to leave by 4, a full 45 minutes past my designated end time.
But once you factor in the two full months off each summer and the winter and spring breaks, I think it all balances out quite nicely. 
Or, what DMark said. It used to be a lot more when I first started. I would stay at work until 7 many days then stay up until midnight working just to get back up 6 hours later to repeat the process all over again. I easily worked the equivalent of two full time jobs my first few years teaching.
Insurance sales and I said zero. Although technically I have on rare occasion worked an extra hour. Rare as in once every three months or so.
That’s the whole point - I don’t put in any overtime. If I did, I wouldn’t be paid for it, but since I don’t, it isn’t an issue.
My direct boss is one of the managing partners, and on the very rare occasions where I do stay late because of a big upcoming hearing or something he essentially gives me a half day.
Back when I used to work in fast food management, 6-10 hours a week.
In my current job, I have little to no mandatory overtime but I volunteer for 10-20 hours of PAID overtime a week.
Just about this. And though as DoperChic says, we get the longer holidays, I spend a lot of my holiday preparing for the following term. Especially this summer - there’s a new GCSE syllabus coming in, damn them.
Museum exec in business & finance. Putting in 10-15 per week extra on average to cover for hourly employees we can not afford in this economy. Do not expect it to end any time soon unless I give up non-profit work.
I’m a federal employee. At this post, I don’t have to (normally) put in any overtime at all. My last post was a different ball of wax. I routinely worked 25-30 hours a week unpaid overtime. It was not fun and took a serious toll on my health - both mental and physical.
I picked 6 - 10.
I generally work at least a 9 hour day. Some days it runs to 10 or 11. I do some kind of work every weekend. Sometimes it’s signing on, copying a file and signing off. Sometimes it’s finalizing a project all fricken’ day long.
On the other hand, I do have pretty decent leeway for taking a half-day every once in a while when I need and/or want one.
I’m middle-managent level analyst at a pretty large but not-quite-national bank.
6-10. It isn’t quite unpaid, because it is one of the things they look at at bonus time. I am a computer geek in the financial services industry.
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Shodan
16-20. Mostly because I work in product development for a software startup, and spend a lot of time with less than reasonable deadlines. However, i just put in my notice, so i should be moving into the 0-5 pool within the next few weeks.