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Columbus is No. 54 on the list of 116 metro areas, with Cincinnati coming in at No. 101. Toledo is 107 and Cleveland 109. Lexington, Ky. was ranked at 79.
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The site says it weighed the metro areas’ labor force participation rates, average workweek hours, average commute time and average number of workers with multiple jobs. Those behind the list also say they measured volunteer hours and leisure time.
Other stats: Sioux Falls, S.D., has the highest labor-force participation rate with 83.48 percent, which is 1.4 times higher than in Detroit, the city with the lowest at 61.20 percent.
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Cheyenne, Wyo., has the shortest average commute time, 13.7 minutes, which the site said is 2.9 times shorter than in New York, the city with the longest at 39.9 minutes.
The hardest working city in America? Anchorage, Alaska, according to the site.
In general, though, Americans work pretty hard, the web site says.
“For many of us, hard work remains the path to achieving the American Dream,” the site said in a statement with the list. “We work so hard, in fact, that we put in more hours at our jobs than several other industrialized countries such as Germany, Japan and the U.K.”
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