Hardest Working City

Quite an fascinating study here from WalletHub.

Very interesting results, and the methodology seems to be quite sound.

Many Americans view hard work as the path to achieving the American Dream. We work so hard, in fact, that we put in more hours at our jobs than several other industrialized countries. The average U.S. worker puts in 1,786 hours per year – 106 hours more than the average in Japan, 248 more than the U.K. and 403 more than Germany.

But some U.S. cities represent the strong work ethic that helped to build the world’s biggest economy better than others. In order to determine which cities outwork the rest of America, WalletHub compared the 116 largest cities across 11 key metrics. Our data set ranges from employment rate to average weekly work hours to share of workers with multiple jobs.


What would you guess?

New York?  #74

Detroit?  #116

Chicago?  #77

Boston?  #42


Here's the quintet at the top:
#5 Irving, Texas
#4 Cheyanne, Wyoming
#3 Virginia Beach
#2 San Francisco
#1 Anchorage, Alaska


Anchorage!  Who would have guessed??

Full list and the story behind these results:
https://wallethub.com/edu/hardest-working-cities-in-america/10424/


Grace & Peace & Love to you all -

Matt