Per metric · 2026-04-27

What's a typical work emails received daily in the US?

Median is 90 emails. Most people fall between 50 emails and 150 emails. Above 250 emails is top-10%.

What's a typical work emails received daily?

The median US adult lands at 90 emails for work emails received daily. The 25th-to-75th percentile range — what most people would call 'normal' — runs from 50 emails to 150 emails. Below 25 emails you're in the bottom 10%; above 250 emails you're in the top 10%.

How we computed this

We anchor at p1, p5, p10, p25, p50, p75, p90, p95, and p99 from public-data sources and linearly interpolate between them. See methodology for the full chain.

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