How many hours a week is considered full-time?

There is no hard and fast rule for how many hours are considered full-time, but most employers opt for 32 hours. 40 hours is the cutoff before you're entitled to overtime pay, but employers are allowed to decide for themselves how many hours puts you in the full-time category at their business.

That being said, the ACA considers employees who work over 30 hours to be entitled to health insurance benefits and therefore considers that number of hours full-time. However, that's the only piece of federal legislation that marks a certain number of hours as full-time as opposed to part-time.