Table: Summary Labor and Population Data for the United States, Wyoming and Neighboring States

	Year	United States	Wyoming	Colorado	Utah	Idaho	Nebraska	North Dakota	South Dakota	Montana
Real Annual Average Weekly Wage ¹ 1990 Base Year	1990	431	366	418	366	347	339	322	300	326
	1991	431	361	420	365	345	340	318	300	327
	1992	440	360	426	374	351	345	322	307	329
	1993	435	359	424	367	349	343	320	307	329
	1994	434	355	421	367	353	346	320	310	326
	1995	435	350	425	369	357	350	321	312	321
Percent Change in Real Wages	1990-95	0.9%	-4.4%	1.7%	0.8%	2.9%	3.3%	-0.3%	4.0%	-1.5%
Indexing Each State's Real Average Weekly Wage to the US	1990	100.0	84.9	97.0	84.9	80.5	78.7	74.7	69.6	75.6
	1991	100.0	83.8	97.5	84.7	80.1	78.9	73.8	69.6	75.9
	1992	102.1	83.5	98.8	86.8	81.4	80.1	74.7	71.2	76.3
	1993	100.9	83.3	98.4	85.2	81.0	79.6	74.3	71.2	76.3
	1994	100.7	82.4	97.7	85.2	81.9	80.3	74.3	71.9	75.6
	1995	100.9	81.2	98.6	85.6	82.8	81.2	74.5	72.4	74.5
Estimates of Population ² July Reference Month	1990	248,718,301	453,589	3,294,473	1,722,850	1,006,734	1,578,417	638,800	696,004	799,065
	1995	262,889,634	479,192	3,747,560	1,958,313	1,166,112	1,639,213	641,506	729,500	870,351
	1996	265,282,783	481,400	3,822,676	2,000,494	1,189,251	1,652,093	643,539	732,405	879,372
Percent Change in Population	1990-95	5.7%	5.7%	13.8%	13.7%	15.8%	3.9%	0.4%	4.8%	8.9%
	1995-96	0.9%	0.5%	2.0%	2.2%	2.0%	0.8%	0.3%	0.4%	1.0%
Net Domestic Migration	1990-95	0	7,285	246,710	72,000	98,295	5,098	-15,612	8,951	47,515
	1995-96	0	-640	36,049	9,865	11,039	3,309	-911	-1,075	5,205
Covered Unemployment Insurance Annual Employment ¹	1989	107,034,665	185,024	1,463,701	661,971	365,290	690,407	240,457	261,245	279,791
	1990	108,658,056	190,705	1,503,673	694,274	386,056	710,969	245,705	274,171	286,562
	1991	106,892,250	195,264	1,526,466	715,493	399,379	716,243	250,416	281,908	293,113
	1992	107,413,728	197,947	1,579,859	738,727	417,768	728,708	257,411	292,835	305,173
	1993	109,416,616	202,563	1,653,882	778,873	438,103	746,679	265,003	303,230	314,710
	1994	112,613,831	209,588	1,738,239	827,451	462,651	772,412	274,297	316,194	328,248
	1995	115,479,580	212,215	1,813,348	875,721	477,804	794,362	282,460	327,190	339,432
Percent Change in Employment	1990-95	6.3%	11.3%	20.6%	26.1%	23.8%	11.7%	15.0%	19.3%	18.5%
Total Unemployed ³	1990	7,047,000	13,000	87,000	34,000	29,000	18,000	13,000	13,000	23,000
	1995	7,404,000	12,000	88,000	35,000	32,000	24,000	11,000	11,000	26,000
Unemployment Rate	1990	5.6%	5.4%	4.9%	4.3%	6.0%	2.2%	4.0%	3.7%	5.9%
	1995	5.6%	4.8%	4.2%	3.6%	5.4%	2.6%	3.3%	2.9%	5.9%

¹ Source: Employment and Wages Annual Averages, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

² Source: US Census Bureau.

³ Source: 1990 Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment, Table 12, Bulletin 2381; 1995 Electronic Bullein Board, Bureau of Labor Statistics.