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Wages and salaries' share of income: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Wages and salaries' share of personal income (%, derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Sources of personal income by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 49.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 119.4 %
RI 45.5 %
DE 52.3 %
CT 42.2 %
NJ 44.7 %
MD 47.3 %
MA 52.9 %
VT 44 %
NH 46 %

Lowest: 36.3 to 44.7 %
Group 2: 44.7 to 46.6 %
Group 3: 46.6 to 48.2 %
Group 4: 48.2 to 50.6 %
Highest: 50.6 to 119.4 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: Shares are derived by Quadranac from BEA's personal income components and do not sum to 100: contributions for government social insurance are subtracted from personal income and the residence adjustment is not shown.


1	District of Columbia	119.4
2	New York	55.3
3	Washington	53.1
4	Massachusetts	52.9
5	Georgia	52.5
6	Delaware	52.3
6	Utah	52.3
8	California	52.1
9	Illinois	51.5
10	Minnesota	51.3
11	Virginia	50.6
12	Colorado	50.5
13	North Carolina	50.3
14	North Dakota	50
14	Ohio	50
16	Texas	49.4
17	Oregon	49.1
18	Alaska	49
19	Wisconsin	48.9
20	Kansas	48.4
21	Arizona	48.2
22	Indiana	47.9
23	Missouri	47.7
24	Nevada	47.6
25	Pennsylvania	47.4
26	Maryland	47.3
27	Kentucky	47.2
27	Michigan	47.2
29	Tennessee	47.1
30	Iowa	47
31	Hawaii	46.6
32	Alabama	46.3
33	Nebraska	46
33	New Hampshire	46
35	Rhode Island	45.5
36	South Carolina	45.4
37	New Mexico	45.2
38	Louisiana	45.1
39	Arkansas	45
40	Maine	44.8
41	New Jersey	44.7
42	Idaho	44.6
43	Vermont	44
44	Mississippi	42.7
45	West Virginia	42.4
46	Connecticut	42.2
47	Florida	42.1
48	Oklahoma	41.6
49	Montana	41.4
50	South Dakota	40
51	Wyoming	36.3

Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Economic Accounts, Table SAINC4: Personal income and employment by major component. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by wages and salaries' share of personal income (%, derived) (2025). Data: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Accounts, Table SAINC4; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-wages-and-salaries-share-of-personal-income/

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