STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Millions of New Yorkers work night and day just to afford to live in one of the states with the highest cost of living in the country, but a new study doesn’t seem to think Empire State residents are working all that hard.
WalletHub, an online financial advisory site, this week released a new study, Hardest-Working States in America, with first place representing the hardest-working state and 50th representing the least hard-working.
“It’s undeniable that America has fostered a culture of hard work, with people working longer hours than residents of other developed countries and often leaving vacation time on the table. Working hard is commendable, but people in the hardest-working states may need to consider taking a break once in a while, as a lack of leisure time can have a negative impact on people’s physical and mental health,” said WalletHub analyst Cassandra Happe.
New York ranked 49th overall, a shocking result that placed it as the second-least hard-working state in the country, above only West Virginia, which ranked 50th.
The study analyzed 10 key metrics across all 50 states to develop a comprehensive ranking of how hard residents are working and how little they’re dedicating time to leisure and rest.
Those metrics included direct work factors, like employment rate, average work week hours, share of households where no adults work, share of workers leaving vacation time unused, share of engaged workers and idle youth, and indirect work factors, like average commute time, share of workers with multiple jobs, annual volunteer hours per resident and average leisure time spent per day.
New York ranked dead last, 50th out of 50, in direct work factors, and despite having the longest average commute time in country, which was nearly twice as long as South Dakota, the state with the shortest average commute time, the Empire State, ranked just 18th in indirect work factors.
With indirect work factors, like average commute time, being weighed less than direct work factors, ranking 18th in indirect work factors was not enough to pull New York up from the bottom of the list.
North Dakota ranked as the hardest-working state in the country, followed by Alaska, Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota, with the least hard-working states being West Virginia, New York, Michigan, New Mexico and Connecticut, in order.
“North Dakota is the hardest-working state, in part because it has the highest employment rate in the country, at over 98%. Plus, workers ages 16 to 64 in North Dakota work an average of 39.7 hours per week, the third-most in the country. People in the Roughrider State have the second-lowest amount of leisure time per day, and 33.5% of workers leave some vacation time unused, the second-highest percentage,” Happe said.
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