AVERAGE JOB SALARIES
Below are several lists showing average job salaries by state. Some of this data was obtained from the website of the UNM Bureau of Business and Economic Research.
The first list shows each state's per capita income, which is the average income per person, per year. The biggest jump in per capita income happened in Louisiana, which went from ranking 50th to 31st among states, between 2005 and 2007. The next list shows states ranked by the average hourly wage for retail sales jobs in 2005. The last list shows states ranked by the average hourly wage for all occupations combined in 2005. Per capita income is misleading, considering that just one percent of the population of the United States receives more than 26 percent of the total US income. In other words, a small number of Americans are making a large number of dollars. To be more specific, roughly 2.4 million US residents over the age of fifteen have an average income of about $900,000 per year. The rest of us - almost 238 million adult residents - have an average income of about $26,000 per year. The imbalance of per capita income data is most notable in Washington DC. The district has (by FAR) a higher average individual income ($54,985 in 2005, and $61,092 in 2007) than ANY U.S. state. This seems odd, considering that DC also has a higher crime rate, a shorter average life expectancy, and more people living in poverty than ANY U.S. state. In terms of median household income, DC ranks only 30th among states.
STATE ................... p/c 2005 ........ p/c 2007
02 NEW JERSEY ………………............ $43,771 ............... $49,194
03 MASSACHUSETTS ………………..... $44,289 ............... $49,082 04 NEW YORK ………………............... $40,507 ............... $47,385 05 MARYLAND ………………............... $41,760 ............... $46,021
06 WYOMING ………………................. $36,778 .............. $43,226
07 CALIFORNIA ……………….............. $37,036 .............. $41,571 08 NEW HAMPSHIRE ………………....... $38,408 ............... $41,512 09 VIRGINIA ………………................. $38,390 ............... $41,347 10 COLORADO ………………............... $37,946 ............... $41,042 11 MINNESOTA ……………….............. $37,373 ............... $41,034 12 DELAWARE ………………................ $37,065 ............... $40,608 13 NEVADA ……………….................... $35,883 ............... $40,480 14 WASHINGTON ………………............. $35,409 .............. $40,414
15 ALASKA ………………..................... $35,612 .............. $40,352 16 ILLINOIS ………………................... $36,120 ............... $40,322 17 RHODE ISLAND ………………........... $36,153 ............... $39,463 18 HAWAII ………………...................... $34,539 .............. $39,239
USA ……………….......... $34,586 ....... $38,611
19 FLORIDA ………………..................... $33,219 .............. $38,444 20 PENNSYLVANIA ………………........... $34,897 ............... $38,788 21 KANSAS ………………...................... $32,836 .............. $36,768
22 TEXAS ………………........................ $32,462 .............. $37,187
23 VERMONT ………………................... $33,327 ............... $36,670
24 NEBRASKA ……………….................. $33,616 ............... $36,471 25 WISCONSIN ………………................ $33,565 ............... $36,047 26 IOWA ……………….......................... $32,315 ............. $35,023
27 MICHIGAN ………………................... $33,116 ............... $35,086 28 OHIO ……………….......................... $32,478 ............... $34,874 29 NORTH DAKOTA ………………............ $31,395 ............... $34,846 30 OREGON ………………...................... $32,103 ............... $34,784
31 LOUISIANA ………………................... $24,820 ............... $34,756
32 MISSOURI ……………….................... $31,899 ............... $34,389 33 OKLAHOMA ……………….................... $29,330 .............. $34,153 34 SOUTH DAKOTA ………………............ $31,614 ............... $33,905 35 MAINE ………………......................... $31,252 ............... $33,722
36 NORTH CAROLINA ………………........... $30,553 .............. $33,636 37 INDIANA ………………...................... $31,276 ............... $33,616 38 GEORGIA ………………...................... $31,121 ............... $33,457 39 TENNESSEE ……………….................. $31,107 ............... $33,280 40 ARIZONA ………………...................... $30,267 ............... $33,029 41 NEW MEXICO ……………….................. $27,644 .............. $31,474 42 MONTANA ………………..................... $29,387 ............... $32,458 43 ALABAMA ………………...................... $29,136 ............... $32,404 44 IDAHO ………………........................... $28,158 .............. $31,197
45 UTAH ………………............................ $28,061 ............... $31,189
46 KENTUCKY ………………..................... $28,513 ............... $31,111 47 SOUTH CAROLINA ………………............ $28,352 ............... $31,013 48 ARKANSAS ………………...................... $26,874 ............... $30,060
49 WEST VIRGINIA ………………............... $27,215 ............... $29,537 50 MISSISSIPPI ………………................... $25,318 ............... $28,845
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