Laboring every day
Texas punches in as one of the hardest-working states in U.S., says study
Hey, Texas. Kick up your feet and give yourselves a pat on the back. You deserve it. The Lone Star State has been named one of the hardest-working states in the country.
In a study released August 31 just ahead of Labor Day, personal finance website WalletHub ranks Texas fourth on its list of the hardest-working states, behind North Dakota at No. 1, Alaska at No. 2, and Wyoming at No. 3. In last place: West Virginia.
Texas held the No. 4 spot in WalletHub’s 2019 rankings, too.
For the study, WalletHub compares the 50 states across 10 key indicators. Those factors include average hours worked per week, share of workers with more than one job, and volunteer hours logged per person. Texas clocks in at No. 4 this year for the highest average number of hours put in during the workweek — its best ranking among the 10 key indicators.
The study of hardest-working states comes as a new WalletHub survey shows about one-third of Americans are worried about job security.
“Women are less likely than men to be concerned about job security, even though recent data shows that women are losing their jobs at a greater rate than men during the COVID-19 pandemic,” WalletHub analyst Jill Gonzalez says.
The survey also finds that about half of Americans say they’ve worked harder since the coronavirus pandemic began.
“Middle-class Americans were the most likely to say they have worked harder, followed by high-income and then low-income Americans,” Gonzalez says.
