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Working hard or hardly working?
If you live in one of these “hardest working” states in America, the answer could be the former.
With Americans working an average of almost 1,800 hours per year and the average worker using only 54% of their available vacation time, the personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2019’s Hardest-Working States in America.
The data set ranges from average workweek hours to share of workers with multiple jobs to annual volunteer hours per resident.
To determine where Americans work the hardest, WalletHub compared the 50 states across ten key metrics.
Here are the ten “hardest working” states, according to the data:
- North Dakota
- Alaska
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Nebraska
- Hawaii
- Wyoming
- Colorado
- Virginia
- Maryland
More findings from the WalletHub study:
Alaska clocks in the longest hours worked per week, 42, which is 14% longer than in Utah, the state with the shortest (37).
Alaska and the Dakotas are also three of the most dangerous states to work in.
New York has the longest average commute time, 33 minutes, which is 1.9 times longer than in South Dakota, the state with the shortest at 17 minutes.
Mississippi has the highest share of workers leaving vacation time unused, 34.70 percent, which is 1.6 times higher than in Ohio, the state with the lowest at 21.90 percent.
South Dakota has the highest share of workers with multiple jobs, 8.20 percent, which is 2.3 times higher than in New Mexico, the state with the lowest at 3.60 percent. It’s also a terrible place to live if you’re trying to pay off student loan debt.
If you live in any of these states, you need to take some damn vacation days. You’re making the rest of us slackers look bad.
[via WalletHub]
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Chris Illuminati is a 5-time published author and recovering a**hole who writes about success, fitness, parenting and professional wrestling. Reach out to him on Instagram & Twitter or email chris@brobible.com.