Is Montana Considered One Of The Top Hardest Working States?

When people think of Montana, they often get the image of hard working men and women. Or at least they used to. Montana is a very rural state that includes lots of agriculture.

People often think of farmers, ranchers, cowboys and cowgirls, and as of lately you see an abundance of construction workers 7 days a week, all to get necessary jobs completed in time.

So when we look at the rest of the U.S. and compare them to our wonderful state of Montana, do Montanan's actually work that much harder than the rest of the U.S.? The answer, according to WalletHub, is no.

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The experts at WalletHub take all the information they can find and poll the people and they release the statistics to us. Apparently there are 24 states that are harder working than us Montanan's. Now some will argue this, so let's look at what WalletHub took into consideration to get these statistics.

• Average Workweek Hours
• Employment Rate (people over 16-years-old that are working)
• Share of Households where No Adults Work
• Share of Workers Leaving Vacation Time Unused
• Share of Engaged Workers
• Idle Youth (18-24) Rate

A few other factors that played a roll in the results are volunteer hours, commute time, daily leisure time, and people with shared multiple jobs.

Don't get me wrong, I will always consider Montana a hard working state, especially considering the respect I have for farmers, working sunup to sundown to make sure our country is fed, but I definitely don't see as many young workers here as I did for the 36 years I spent in the hardest working state, North Dakota.

cc: WalletHub