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With earnings: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: With earnings. All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Households by source of income, by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-10-30

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National value: 76.9 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 79.5 %
RI 74.7 %
DE 74 %
CT 77.4 %
NJ 79.9 %
MD 79.5 %
MA 77.9 %
VT 74.6 %
NH 77 %

Lowest: 67 to 74 %
Group 2: 74 to 75.2 %
Group 3: 75.2 to 77.1 %
Group 4: 77.1 to 78.9 %
Highest: 78.9 to 83.2 %

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	Utah	83.2
2	Texas	81.9
3	Alaska	81.2
4	Colorado	80.5
5	New Jersey	79.9
5	North Dakota	79.9
7	California	79.7
8	Nebraska	79.6
9	District of Columbia	79.5
9	Maryland	79.5
11	South Dakota	78.9
12	Georgia	78.7
13	Kansas	78.4
14	Virginia	78.3
15	Hawaii	78.1
15	Minnesota	78.1
15	Nevada	78.1
18	Massachusetts	77.9
18	Washington	77.9
20	Connecticut	77.4
21	Wyoming	77.1
22	Indiana	77
22	New Hampshire	77
24	Illinois	76.9
25	Iowa	76.5
26	Idaho	76.3
26	Tennessee	76.3
28	North Carolina	76.2
29	New York	76.1
30	Oklahoma	75.3
31	Missouri	75.2
32	Ohio	74.8
33	Rhode Island	74.7
34	Pennsylvania	74.6
34	Vermont	74.6
34	Wisconsin	74.6
37	Montana	74.5
38	Arizona	74.4
38	Oregon	74.4
40	Delaware	74
40	South Carolina	74
42	Louisiana	73.9
43	Michigan	73.2
44	Florida	73.1
45	Arkansas	73
46	Maine	72.7
47	Mississippi	72.6
48	Alabama	72.1
48	Kentucky	72.1
50	New Mexico	71.8
51	West Virginia	67

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S1902: Mean Income in the Past 12 Months. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by with earnings (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S1902; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-10-30. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-with-earnings/

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