Monday’s solar eclipse will be a once-in-a-lifetime event for most Americans (except Sergey Brin, he plans to live forever). “There’s very few people who are not going to walk outside when there’s a celestial wonder happening above their heads to go out and view it," Challenger, told the New York Post. Then, the firm found that 14.8% of the employed workers work a shift other than a day shift, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Finally, it used the average hourly wage data for the number of full-time employed workers aged 16 and over, which is $23.86, to calculate total loss. As the firm said in a statement, the cost to states and metro areas directly in the path of totality could see almost $200 million in lost productivity alone.

Source: Forbes August 19, 2017 12:56 UTC