Tennessee may be known as the Volunteer State but it ranks among the top quartile of states in the amount of time people spend on paid work.
Tennessee ranks 12th highest among the 50 states in its average workweek but 30th in the average leisure time spent per day. A new study by the online website WalletHub found that 31% of Tennessee workers don't use all of their vacation time.
The average workweek in Tennessee, 39.2 hours per week, is nearly 14% longer than the U.S. average even though Americans work, on average 435 hours per year more year than the Germans, but 357 minutes a week fewer than Mexicans do.
Overall, Tennessee ranked No. 15 and Georgia was No. 12 among the 50 states in the WalletHub study of the hardest working states.
To determine where Americans work the hardest, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 10 key indicators. They range from average workweek hours to share of workers with multiple jobs to annual volunteer hours per resident.
Hardest working states
- Alaska
- North Dakota
- Nebraska
- South Dakota
- Texas
- Wyoming
- Oklahoma
- Virginia
- New Hampshire
- Kansas
Source: WalletHub