Residents of the Big Apple spend a combined average of 49 hours per week working and commuting — longer than any other major city in the country.
Jason Decrow / AP
A new NYC Economic Brief revealed this week that New Yorkers spend an average of 6.18 hours per week commuting to work — longer than any of the next 29 largest American cities.
New Yorkers also work an average of 42.5 hours per week. That's not the longest work week in the U.S. — San Francisco, Houston, and a handful of other cities have longer ones — but when combined with commute times it totals 49.08 hours.
That means people in New York are, on average, spending more time on work than anyone else in the country.
That's all pretty disheartening if you live in New York, but you're especially hard hit if you fall into one of these groups:
NYC Comptroller's Office
Long work weeks and commutes may actually be keeping women out of the workforce, the report notes. The percentage of women working in New York City is lower than average, and much lower than than in cities like Boston and San Francisco.
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