HARD WORK: Wallethub.com completed a survey of various cities within the US and determined a list of the Top 20 Hardest-Working Cities. The winner was Anchorage, Alaska. Meanwhile, Cheyenne, Wyo., Virginia Beach, Va., Washington, DC and Irving, Texas rounded out the top 5.
Pittsburgh is ranked 95th on the list; while Philadelphia is ranked 91st on the list. New York City is ranked 90th, while Buffalo, N.Y., is ranked 114th in terms of hardest-working cities in the US.
The criteria explored to determine these rankings included 11 specific metrics, including but not limited to: employment rate, average work week hours, vacation time left unused, engaged workers, idle youth, average commute times, volunteer hours and leisure time.
Some notable facts included in the report were that Irving, Texas, has the lowest share of households where no adults work, with 11.18%, and Detroit has the highest share of households where no adults work, with 40.79%.
Boston has the lowest share of idle youth 16-24-years-old at 6.60%. Meanwhile, Bakersfield, Calif., has the highest rate of idle youth at 20.80%.
Cheyenne, Wyoming is the city with the shortest commute time at 14.30 minutes. This outshines the commute in the Big Apple, which is the longest at 41.50 minutes (and 2.9 times longer than that of Cheyenne residents).
Cities 6 through 20 are as follows:
6. San Francisco, CA; 7. Austin, Texas; 8. Norfolk, VA; 9. Corpus Christi, Texas; 10. Denver, Colo.; 11. Plano, Texas; 12. Chesapeake, VA; 13. Dallas, Texas; 14. Sioux Falls, SD; 15. Aurora, Colo.; 16. Fort Worth, Texas; 17. Salt Lake City, Utah; 18. Garland, Texas; 19. Billings, Mont. and 20. Arlington, Texas.
Visit https://wallethub.com/edu/hardest-working-cities-in-america/10424 to get an idea of where cities in other states ranked in this report.
