Denver named one of the top ten hardest working cities in America

You can say what you want about Denver in 2026, but now there’s at least one thing that can’t be disputed… We work hard!

WalletHub’s annual list of the Hardest-Working Cities in America has just come out for 2026 where they rank the 166 biggest U.S. cities on 11 key factors in two main areas:

• Direct work factors, which include average work week hours, employment rate and the number of workers leaving vacation time on the table.
• Indirect factors, like commute time, workers with multiple jobs and leisure time spent per day.

Based on all that, this year’s Hardest-Working City in the country is Cheyenne, Wyoming. It ranks highest for average workweek length, employees there average 40.7 hours a week. It also has the fifth-highest share of workers with multiple jobs.

Denver wasn’t too far behind our neighbors to the north in Cheyenne, though, coming in at number nine. Other Colorado cities in the study didn’t do too bad either… Aurora came in at number 16, and Colorado Springs at number 31.

The Top 10 Hardest-Working Cities in the U.S.

(Check out the complete list here)

1. Cheyenne, Wyoming
2. Anchorage, Alaska
3. Washington, D.C.
4. Sioux Falls, South Dakota
5. Irving, Texas
6. Nashville, Tennessee
7. Dallas, Texas
8. San Francisco, California
9. Denver, Colorado
10. Austin, Texas