Millions plan to skip work after Super Bowl LX — and the economic impact is massive

It’s tradition, it’s a once-a-year event, but why is the Super Bowl played on a Sunday? Sacrilege? Maybe, but wouldn’t it be nice to have Sunday to recover from that Super Bowl party hangover?

Here are the facts according to research from data experts at BetVictor Casino:

It is projected that nearly 23 million employees in the United States will fail to show up for work on the Monday after Super Bowl LX. The research also showed that, based on the national hourly wage in the United States ($37.02), up to $6.8 billion could be lost to the economy with a colossal amount of sick days expected to be taken.

It has been seven years since either team made it to the Super Bowl, while the game itself will be a repeat of the 2015 edition.

Research suggests that workers in both the Boston and Seattle metropolitan areas are twice as likely to be no-shows compared to any other city in the country, with 28 percent of the total workforce expected to be absent from work.

That would result in a combined total of almost 1.4 million people failing to show up for work on a day of celebration or commiseration. Looking at fans of each team in isolation, that means a total of 776,104 no-shows in Boston and 605,304 in Seattle.

Elsewhere across the United States, that figure sits at 14 percent of the country’s total workforce. Among NFL cities, it is New York City that is projected to have the biggest number of absentees with 1.4 million.

Patriots and Seahawks fans could miss out on combined $1.7 billion for skipping work

Pats and Seahawks fans are projected to miss out on a combined total of up to $1.7 billion in lost earnings on the Monday after the Super Bowl, based on the average hourly wages in both Boston and Seattle.

Separating the two, it is Pats fans who stand to lose slightly more owing to Boston having a larger workforce than Seattle. Those in Boston stand to miss out on up to $928 million lost earnings, compared to $746 million in Seattle.

But when compared to other NFL cities, New York City takes the biggest potential loss of earnings. Workers in the Big Apple are projected to miss out on up to $3.3 billion, should 14 percent of the workforce fail to show up.

In total, the projected absences from work could see the potential loss of earnings hit at least $100 million in all but one of the 29 cities that are home to an NFL team.The only NFL city with potential losses under that is Green Bay, with earnings lost projected to hit $42.9 million.

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