Hop off the subway, grab a coffee, and enjoy it on the High Line for a few minutes. Check your watch. For most New Yorkers, the workday begins at 8:24 a.m.
FiveThirtyEight’s Nate Silver to find the median time Americans begin their workday in given metro areas, and New Yorkers get into the office later than any other U.S. city.
It is a median number, which for Silver’s analysis means 25 percent of New Yorkers arrive by 7:28 a.m. and 75 percent get in by 9:32. Las Vegas’s median gap puts 75 percent of its workforce off the charts (which covers the 7 to 10 a.m. block).
New York is also the second most caffeinated city in America, next to Chicago (arrival time: 8:02 a.m.), spending about three times the national average on coffee, according to .
For a lesson in getting the worm, see Hinesville, Georgia; Pascagoula, Mississippi; and Jacksonville, North Carolina. Their workforces all arrive before 7:20 a.m.