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Private wage and salary workers: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Private wage and salary workers. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Class of worker by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-03

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National value: 79.4 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 69.5 %
RI 82 %
DE 80.4 %
CT 81.6 %
NJ 81 %
MD 71.5 %
MA 82 %
VT 75.1 %
NH 80.5 %

Lowest: 67.8 to 75.4 %
Group 2: 75.4 to 78 %
Group 3: 78 to 80 %
Group 4: 80 to 81.5 %
Highest: 81.5 to 83.9 %

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. Values are as published in the source table.


1	Indiana	83.9
2	Pennsylvania	83.1
3	Michigan	82.5
4	Massachusetts	82
4	Rhode Island	82
6	Florida	81.9
7	Nevada	81.8
8	Illinois	81.7
9	Connecticut	81.6
9	Wisconsin	81.6
11	Minnesota	81.5
11	Missouri	81.5
11	Ohio	81.5
14	New Jersey	81
15	North Carolina	80.6
16	Arizona	80.5
16	New Hampshire	80.5
18	Delaware	80.4
19	Kentucky	80.1
19	Utah	80.1
21	Georgia	80
22	Tennessee	79.5
23	Texas	79.4
24	Colorado	79.1
25	South Carolina	78.9
26	Iowa	78.8
27	Nebraska	78.6
27	Washington	78.6
29	New York	78.5
30	Idaho	78.2
31	Oregon	78
32	Maine	77.9
33	Alabama	77.8
33	Arkansas	77.8
35	Louisiana	77.7
36	Kansas	77
37	California	76.8
38	South Dakota	76.4
39	Oklahoma	76.2
40	West Virginia	75.5
41	North Dakota	75.4
42	Mississippi	75.2
43	Vermont	75.1
44	Montana	74.3
45	Virginia	73.9
46	Maryland	71.5
47	New Mexico	71.2
48	Hawaii	70.8
49	Wyoming	70.5
50	District of Columbia	69.5
51	Alaska	67.8

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table DP03: Selected Economic Characteristics. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by private wage and salary workers (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table DP03; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-03. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-private-wage-and-salary-workers/

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