Hard work is as American as apple pie—WalletHub notes that, as a nation, we spend more time at our jobs than other industrialized countries including Japan, Germany, and the UK. So which US cities work the hardest? The site compared the 116 largest cities in the country, looking at factors including employment rate, average weekly work hours, percentage of workers with more than one job, percentage of workers who leave vacation time unused, and more. The top 10 hardest-working US cities, with San Francisco at the top, along with the number of points they each achieved on WalletHub's 100-point scale:
- San Francisco: 78.52 points
- Fremont, Calif: 78.28 points
- Jersey City, NJ: 74.14 points
- Washington, DC: 74.06 points
- New York City 71.88 points
- Oakland: 70.56 points
- Boston: 68.64 points
- Aurora, Colo.: 68.56 points
- Newark, NJ: 67.02 points
- Chicago: 65.20 points
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