Do you have a 9 to 5 job or do you work the night-shift? Regardless of the hours you work or where you work, a new study reports Americans are definitely hardworking people.

And with March 1 being Employee Appreciation Day and Americans outworking many of their foreign peers by hundreds of extra hours per year, the personal-finance website WalletHub released its report on 2019’s Hardest-Working Cities in America.

According to the website: “The average U.S. worker puts in 1,780 hours per year – 70 hours more than the average in Japan, 266 more than the U.K. and 424 more than Germany.”

In order to determine where Americans work the hardest, WalletHub compared the 116 largest cities across 10 key metrics. The data set ranges from employment rate to average hours worked per week to share of workers with multiple jobs.

Do you live in a city where people work harder than others? Or are you in a city that seems to be a little more lax? You might be surprised to learn where the hardest working Americans are located. Check out the list below and some of the key points that were discovered while exploring this topic by the website.

If you like to work hard you might consider moving to another state if you are not in one of those that indeed works longer and perhaps harder than others.

Overall Rank* City Total Score ‘Direct Work Factors’
Rank		 ‘Indirect Work Factors’
Rank
1 Anchorage, AK 79.03 3 8
2 San Francisco, CA 75.37 4 33
3 Irving, TX 75.33 1 70
4 Virginia Beach, VA 74.95 6 19
5 Plano, TX 73.97 5 58
6 Denver, CO 73.70 10 13
7 Aurora, CO 72.87 13 7
8 Austin, TX 72.50 2 93
9 Cheyenne, WY 72.40 7 86
10 Sioux Falls, SD 71.96 22 2
11 Dallas, TX 71.73 9 56
12 Norfolk, VA 71.34 11 27
13 Corpus Christi, TX 70.79 8 104
14 Washington, DC 70.71 14 20
15 Fort Worth, TX 69.76 12 53
16 Chesapeake, VA 69.60 21 14
17 Honolulu, HI 69.56 20 32
18 Arlington, TX 68.91 17 52
19 Garland, TX 68.23 19 44
20 Nashville, TN 68.21 15 65
21 Charlotte, NC 68.06 24 23
22 Houston, TX 67.86 18 76
23 Raleigh, NC 67.51 26 24
24 Portland, ME 67.43 36 16
25 Gilbert, AZ 66.90 23 42
26 Seattle, WA 66.77 46 6
27 Colorado Springs, CO 66.68 42 17
28 Durham, NC 66.30 32 38
29 Manchester, NH 66.27 39 21
30 Chandler, AZ 65.93 25 64
31 Omaha, NE 65.06 44 30
32 Oklahoma City, OK 64.87 16 110
33 Irvine, CA 64.74 29 80
34 Fargo, ND 64.43 33 77
35 Fremont, CA 64.40 45 28
36 Laredo, TX 64.40 28 101
37 Tampa, FL 64.39 27 89
38 San Jose, CA 64.33 38 41
39 Billings, MT 64.16 40 63
40 Scottsdale, AZ 63.89 34 73
41 Salt Lake City, UT 63.81 63 5
42 Des Moines, IA 63.31 57 18
43 El Paso, TX 62.96 41 96
44 San Antonio, TX 62.93 31 99
45 Little Rock, AR 62.84 35 107
46 Boston, MA 62.08 65 15
47 Tulsa, OK 61.91 37 111
48 Indianapolis, IN 61.59 54 40
49 San Diego, CA 61.56 48 74
50 St. Petersburg, FL 61.56 43 90
51 Wichita, KS 61.45 58 46
52 Jersey City, NJ 61.32 53 61
53 Oakland, CA 61.29 59 36
54 Anaheim, CA 61.24 52 68
55 Kansas City, MO 60.88 62 37
56 Long Beach, CA 60.87 55 54
57 Minneapolis, MN 60.86 74 11
58 Phoenix, AZ 60.77 56 57
59 Santa Ana, CA 60.77 49 80
60 Baltimore, MD 60.63 85 1
61 Jacksonville, FL 60.58 30 112
62 Atlanta, GA 60.47 51 82
63 Orlando, FL 60.45 47 95
64 Lincoln, NE 60.42 67 34
65 Louisville, KY 60.01 61 50
66 Portland, OR 59.75 80 4
67 Los Angeles, CA 58.95 68 48
68 Lubbock, TX 58.71 50 113
69 Henderson, NV 58.51 60 92
70 Boise, ID 58.40 66 97
71 Lexington-Fayette, KY 58.08 64 100
72 Columbus, OH 57.89 70 55
73 New York, NY 57.84 72 59
74 Glendale, AZ 57.71 76 43
75 Fort Wayne, IN 57.11 75 75
76 Chula Vista, CA 56.47 78 45
77 St. Paul, MN 56.30 93 9
78 Greensboro, NC 56.08 83 49
79 New Orleans, LA 55.83 69 98
80 St. Louis, MO 55.78 87 29
81 Winston-Salem, NC 55.69 86 51
82 Miami, FL 55.35 71 102
83 Chicago, IL 54.87 92 25
84 North Las Vegas, NV 54.43 82 79
85 Reno, NV 54.40 73 114
86 Mesa, AZ 54.27 89 60
87 Las Vegas, NV 54.26 81 84
88 Memphis, TN 54.24 84 71
89 Bakersfield, CA 54.14 88 78
90 Wilmington, DE 54.04 79 91
91 Madison, WI 52.50 99 22
92 Philadelphia, PA 52.32 100 10
93 Charleston, WV 52.09 77 116
94 Albuquerque, NM 51.82 94 87
95 Milwaukee, WI 51.56 103 3
96 Riverside, CA 51.30 97 47
97 Jackson, MS 51.24 91 105
98 Sacramento, CA 51.01 95 83
99 Birmingham, AL 50.51 90 109
100 Baton Rouge, LA 49.74 96 103
101 Cincinnati, OH 48.45 102 39
102 Hialeah, FL 47.69 98 106
103 Pittsburgh, PA 47.37 104 26
104 Tucson, AZ 46.88 101 94
105 Stockton, CA 46.26 106 35
106 San Bernardino, CA 44.12 108 67
107 Toledo, OH 43.67 109 66
108 Fresno, CA 43.61 107 85
109 Bridgeport, CT 42.33 112 12
110 Providence, RI 42.26 110 72
111 Columbia, SC 41.28 105 115
112 Newark, NJ 41.26 111 61
113 Cleveland, OH 38.27 114 31
114 Buffalo, NY 33.75 113 108
115 Burlington, VT 32.30 115 88
116 Detroit, MI 31.93 116 69

*1=Hardest Working

Key Stats

  • Irving, Texas, has the lowest share of households where no adults work, 12.40 percent, which is 3.5 times lower than in Detroit, the city with the highest at 42.92 percent.
  • The Big Apple, aka New York has the longest average commute time, 40.8 minutes, which is 2.9 times longer than in Cheyenne, Wyoming, the city with the shortest at 14 minutes.
  • Baltimore contributes the most annual volunteer hours per resident, 45.24, which is 5.4 times more than in Jacksonville, Florida, the city that contributes the fewest at 8.36.
  • Des Moines, Iowa, has the lowest share of idle youth 16-24-years-old, 6.1 percent, which is 3.4 times lower than in Bakersfield, California, the city with the highest at 20.7 percent.

To view the full report and your city’s rank, please visit here.