US Labor Dept: 50 States by Average Weekly Wage Growth, 2020-202

[dimondpark]

Released September 2, 2021

50 States by Weekly Wage Growth, 2020-2021

Annual Weekly Wage Growth(Weekly Wage, March 2021)
+11.3% California($1,623)
+10.4% New York($1,869)
+9.1% Washington($1,540)
+8.5% Maryland($1,386)
+7.8% Massachusetts($1,732)
+6.7% Illinois($1,387)
+6.4% Oregon($1,172)
+5.7% Hawaii($1,091)
+5.4% Montana($915)
+5.4% New Hampshire($1,258)
+5.3% New Jersey($1,533)
+5.1% Florida($1,104)
+5.0% Tennessee($1,077)
+4.9% Idaho($906)
+4.9% Vermont($1,028)
+4.8% Arizona($1,150)
+4.8% Michigan($1,155)
+4.7% Connecticut($1,575)
+4.7% Maine($1,000)
+4.7% Nevada($1,080)
+4.6% Minnesota($1,290)
+4.3% Pennsylvania($1,226)
+4.2% Virginia($1,285)
+4.1% Colorado($1,335)
+4.1% North Carolina($1,137)
+3.9% Wisconsin($1,047)
+3.8% New Mexico($958)
+3.8% South Carolina($957)
+3.7% Arkansas($957)
+3.7% Missouri($1,055)
+3.7% Utah($1,065)
+3.6% Georgia($1,198)
+3.6% Nebraska($990)
+3.4% South Dakota($934)
+3.4% Rhode Island($1,171)
+3.3% Indiana($1,026)
+3.3% Ohio($1,098)
+2.6% Iowa($1,004)
+2.5% Alabama($996)
+2.4% Texas($1,261)
+2.4% Kentucky($965)
+1.9% Kansas($986)
+1.6% Delaware($1,264)
+1.1% Mississippi($811)
+1.0% Louisiana($977)
+0.8% West Virginia($911)
-0.6% Alaska($1,125)
-0.6% Wyoming($953)
-0.8% Oklahoma($939)
-0.9% North Dakota($1,037)

Interactive Map:
https://www.bls.gov/charts/county-em...-by-state.htm#

[jbermingham123]

wow, montana.. wtf

[SIGSEGV]

Originally Posted by jbermingham123

wow, montana.. wtf

Remote workers moving to Missoula/Bozeman/Butte?

[jbermingham123]

Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

Remote workers moving to Missoula/Bozeman/Butte?

as a montanan myself, i can assure you not butte*

but an influx of remote workers is definitely a possible expanation



*montana's official unnofficial state passtime is shitting on butte, and doing so at every available opportunity is strictly enforced by intense peer pressure from the official unofficial vigilante state police

[SIGSEGV]

Originally Posted by jbermingham123

as a montanan myself, i can assure you not butte*

but an influx of remote workers is definitely a possible expanation



*montana's official unnofficial state passtime is shitting on butte, and doing so at every available opportunity is strictly enforced by intense peer pressure from the official unofficial vigilante state police

This makes me want to visit Butte, but alas, looks like no direct flights form Chicago. Bozeman on the other hand seems to have an impressive assortment of direct flights for a small town:

[jbermingham123]

Originally Posted by SIGSEGV

Bozeman on the other hand seems to have an impressive assortment of direct flights for a small town

That's because it is the closest city to:

-Yellowstone NP
-Big Sky, one of the world's upper-tier ski resorts
-Bridger Bowl, a less famous but also good mountain, with famous training facilities used by pro athletes and occasionally olypians
-the Madison and Gallatin rivers, which attract fly-fishing tourism from all over the world

The town itself is far less of a destination than its surroundings, at least for now

[SIGSEGV]

Originally Posted by jbermingham123

That's because it is the closest city to:

-Yellowstone NP
-Big Sky, one of the world's upper-tier ski resorts
-Bridger Bowl, a less famous but also good mountain, with famous training facilities used by pro athletes and occasionally olypians
-the Madison and Gallatin rivers, which attract fly-fishing tourism from all over the world

The town itself is far less of a destination than its surroundings, at least for now

Yeah, and Montana State University, which must stimulate some traffic. But obviously this makes Bozeman a much more attractive relocation destination.

[LosAngelesSportsFan]

Originally Posted by jbermingham123

That's because it is the closest city to:

-Yellowstone NP
-Big Sky, one of the world's upper-tier ski resorts
-Bridger Bowl, a less famous but also good mountain, with famous training facilities used by pro athletes and occasionally olypians
-the Madison and Gallatin rivers, which attract fly-fishing tourism from all over the world

The town itself is far less of a destination than its surroundings, at least for now

Ive really liked Bozeman the 2 times ive been there. Good food, fun vibe. Reminds me of Pasadena with a younger demo

[SIGSEGV]

I just looked at real estate prices in Bozeman... wow.

[BnaBreaker]

Woohoo! Finally a list in which Tennessee isn't at the bottom with all the other red states!

[dimondpark]

Here is the commensurate data for the counties earning $1,500+

Average Weekly Wage, Q1 2021($1,500+)
$3,967 New York, NY
$3,721 San Francisco, CA
$3,585 San Mateo, CA
$3,505 Santa Clara, CA
$2,545 Suffolk, MA
$2,306 Somerset, NJ
$2,220 Fairfield, CT
$2,165 Washington, DC
$2,152 King, WA
$2,128 Morris, NJ
$2,107 Middlesex, MA
$2,077 Arlington, VA
$1,981 Fairfax, VA
$1,959 Hudson, NJ
$1,938 Montgomery, MD
$1,915 Fulton, GA
$1,898 Lake, IL
$1,793 Mercer, NJ
$1,754 Alameda, CA
$1,753 Denver, CO
$1,721 Marin, CA
$1,711 Westchester, NY
$1,683 Montgomery, PA
$1,668 Hennepin, MN
$1,651 Chester, PA
$1,644 Midland, TX
$1,627 Cook, IL
$1,627 Durham, NC
$1,612 Essex, NJ
$1,605 Contra Costa, CA
$1,595 Travis, TX
$1,594 Union, NJ
$1,575 Alexandria, VA
$1,562 Boulder, CO
$1,562 Williamson, TN
$1,559 Howard, MD
$1,547 Dallas, TX
$1,539 Arapahoe, CO
$1,528 Hartford, CT
$1,518 Harris, TX

Percent Growth in Average Weekly Wage(Q1 2020-Q1 2021)
+33.9% San Francisco, CA
+22.1% San Mateo, CA
+21.0% New York, NY
+20.7% Santa Clara, CA
+17.1% Montgomery, MD
+11.9% King, WA
+10.1% Contra Costa, CA
+10.0% Marin, CA
+9.3% Hudson, NJ
+9.3% Middlesex, MA
+9.3% Travis, TX
+8.6% Suffolk, MA
+8.6% Washington, DC
+8.3% Cook, IL
+8.2% Fairfield, CT
+8.1% Chester, PA
+7.9% Williamson, TN
+7.6% Denver, CO
+7.4% Lake, IL
+7.3% Howard, MD
+7.1% Boulder, CO
+6.5% Somerset, NJ
+6.4% Fulton, GA
+5.8% Mercer, NJ
+5.3% Hennepin, NJ
+5.1% Montgomery, PA
+4.8% Alexandria, VA
+4.4% Durham, NC
+3.3% Dallas TX
+3.2% Union, NJ
+3.1% Fairfax, VA
+3.0% Arlington, VA
+2.9% Arapahoe, CO
+2.6% Midland, TX
+2.3% Essex, NJ
+2.2% Westchester, NY
+1.5% Morris, NJ
+0.5% Hartford, CT
-1.7% Harris, TX

*No percentage growth data available for Alameda, CA

All Large Counties:
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewqtr.t01.htm

[Steely Dan]

^ I'm legit surprised that cook and lake counties in Chicagoland meet the $1,500 threshold, but dupage county doesn't.

I always think of dupage as a bastion of the upper middle class.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

^ I'm legit surprised that cook and lake counties in Chicagoland meet the $1,500 threshold, but dupage county doesn't.

I always think of dupage as a bastion of the upper middle class.

Yeah, that list can't be complete.

[dimondpark]

DuPage, IL has an average weekly wage of $1,414 and a growth rate of 3.7%

This data is for the jobs in the county, not the residents---so many of the higher income households in DuPage most likely earn their paychecks in Cook county or Lake county.

[Steely Dan]

^ thanks for the clarification .

Still though, that result is legitimately surprising to me as there are very significant clusters of white collar jobs in dupage county spread among the myriad office parks of Oak Brook, Naperville, Downers Grove, etc.

Maybe it's because average is being used instead of median. Cook and Lake counties probably have more uber-wealthy dragging their averages up moreso than dupage.

[JManc]

Originally Posted by dimondpark

*No percentage growth data available for Alameda, CA

All Large Counties:
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cewqtr.t01.htm

Interesting. I have a job interview in Freemont.

[dimondpark]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

^ thanks for the clarification .

Still though, that result is legitimately surprising to me as there are very significant clusters of white collar jobs in dupage county spread among the myriad office parks of Oak Brook, Naperville, Downers Grove, etc.

Maybe it's because average is being used instead of median. Cook and Lake counties probably have more uber-wealthy dragging their averages up moreso than dupage.

Yeah, I had to look this up a long time ago because people were wondering why Alameda is higher than Marin----same concept, more higher paying jobs in Alameda, but it looks like Marin is catching up now.

[dimondpark]

Originally Posted by JManc

Interesting. I have a job interview in Freemont.

It's just Fremont. We can't afford the extra E, what with rents being so high.

Speaking of Fremont, I've been driving from Oakland to Mountain View and back three times in the past week and traffic has really gotten bad again, I almost want to say worse than before the pandemic-like 880 from Oakland airport all the way to the Tesla factory has intermittent slow downs for that entire 20ish-mile stretch at all hours of the day, and it annoys the hell out of me.

[homebucket]

Originally Posted by dimondpark

It's just Fremont. We can't afford the extra E, what with rents being so high.

Speaking of Fremont, I've been driving from Oakland to Mountain View and back three times in the past week and traffic has really gotten bad again, I almost want to say worse than before the pandemic-like 880 from Oakland airport all the way to the Tesla factory has intermittent slow downs for that entire 20ish-mile stretch at all hours of the day, and it annoys the hell out of me.

That... is a hellish commute. And you're up in the Piedmont hills too so getting down to 880 takes forever. We really need BART to swoop over (or under) the Dumbarton strait and hook up with the mid Peninsula cities.

[dimondpark]

Originally Posted by homebucket

That... is a hellish commute. And you're up in the Piedmont hills too so getting down to 880 takes forever. We really need BART to swoop over (or under) the Dumbarton strait and hook up with the mid Peninsula cities.

Yeah, all of that!