Who’s Working the Hardest?
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With March 7 being Employee Appreciation Day and Americans working an average of 1,799 hours per year, much more than people in many other industrialized countries, WalletHub has released its report on 2025’s Hardest-Working Cities in America. In order to determine where Americans work the hardest, WalletHub compared the 116 largest cities across 11 key metrics. The data set ranges from employment rate to average hours worked per week to share of workers with multiple jobs.
Top 20 Hardest-Working Cities in America
- Anchorage, AK
- Washington, DC
- Irving, TX
- Dallas, TX
- Cheyenne, WY
- Austin, TX
- Denver, CO
- Virginia Beach, VA
- San Francisco, CA
- Arlington, TX
- Sioux Falls, SD
- Norfolk, VA
- Plano, TX
- Corpus Christi, TX
- Laredo, TX
- Fort Worth, TX
- Nashville, TN
- Aurora, CO
- Portland, ME
- Chandler, AZ
Key stats:
- Irving, Texas, has the lowest share of households where no adults work, which is 3.3 times lower than in Detroit, the city with the highest.
- New York City has the longest average commute time, which is 2.6 times longer than in Fargo, North Dakota, the city with the shortest.
- Baltimore contributes the most annual volunteer hours per resident, which is six times more than in Jacksonville, Florida, the city that contributes the fewest.
- Boston, Massachusetts, Minneapolis and St. Paul city, Minnesota, have the lowest share of idle youth 16-24-years-old, which is 2.6 times lower than in Bakersfield, California, the city with the highest.