Workers in the U.S. already have infamously long workweeks, putting in approximately 1,800 hours of work each year and beating out Germany, the United Kingdom, France and Japan.
Even then, some cities in the U.S. have workers pushing themselves to the brink — WalletHub examined 116 of the largest cities in the U.S., ranking which cities work the hardest using 11 key metrics, such as average workweek hours, share of workers with unused vacation time, share of workers with multiple jobs and average commute time.
"We have a strong work culture and a lot of people believe that this is the way to achieve the American Dream," says Jill Gonzalez, an analyst at WalletHub. "Unfortunately, in the long term, that can lead to fatigue and a decrease in productivity."
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Yet hard work does not necessarily equate to more financial security: notably, many of the cities that placed in WalletHub's top 15 are not the same cities with the highest salaries in the country — with the exception of San Francisco and Washington D.C.
For example, San Francisco has one of the highest median salaries in America, at $64,990 in annual income, while workers clock in an average of 44 hours per week. On the other hand, workers in Dallas, which placed ninth, put in nearly 43 hours per week and see an annual income of $54,747.
Here are 15 of the hardest-working cities in the U.S., according to
