Table: States Ranked by 1998 Annual
Average Pay

	Average Annual Pay
State	1997	1998	Percent Change 1997-1998
United States	$30,353	$31,908	5.1
District of Columbia	46,761	48,727	4.2
Connecticut	38,941	40,915	5.1
New York	38,543	40,678	5.5
Massachusetts	35,716	37,787	5.8
New Jersey	37,514	*	N/A
California	33,525	35,349	5.4
Illinois	33,024	34,704	5.1
Michigan	32,780	34,542	5.4
Delaware	32,188	33,996	5.6
Alaska	33,156	33,839	2.1
Maryland	31,763	33,306	4.9
Washington	30,769	33,076	7.5
Colorado	30,066	32,246	7.3
Minnesota	30,231	32,073	6.1
Pennsylvania	30,163	31,582	4.7
Texas	29,699	31,512	6.1
Virginia	29,548	31,384	6.2
New Hampshire	29,296	30,943	5.6
Georgia	29,037	30,873	6.3
Ohio	29,094	30,395	4.5
Nevada	28,672	30,201	5.3
Rhode Island	28,662	30,148	5.2
Oregon	28,411	29,542	4.0
Arizona	27,659	29,317	6.0
Indiana	27,635	29,107	5.3
Hawaii	28,357	29,029	2.4
Missouri	27,780	28,907	4.1
Wisconsin	27,337	28,542	4.4
Tennessee	27,248	28,457	4.4
Florida	26,673	28,143	5.5
North Carolina	26,684	28,107	5.3
Alabama	26,139	27,035	3.4
Louisiana	25,755	26,905	4.5
Utah	25,736	26,869	4.4
Kansas	25,694	26,842	4.5
Kentucky	25,577	26,689	4.3
Vermont	25,496	26,615	4.4
South Carolina	24,995	26,151	4.6
Iowa	24,803	26,035	5.0
Maine	24,899	25,875	3.9
New Mexico	24,684	25,716	4.2
Nebraska	24,656	25,535	3.9
West Virginia	24,716	25,269	2.2
Oklahoma	24,226	25,122	3.7
Idaho	24,062	24,866	3.3
Wyoming	23,866	24,747	3.7
Arkansas	23,277	24,422	4.9
Mississippi	22,778	23,822	4.6
North Dakota	22,049	22,990	4.3
South Dakota	21,648	22,754	5.1
Montana	21,946	22,644	3.2
Puerto Rico	16,949	17,902	5.6

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics News Release, "Average Annual Pay by State and Industry, 1998," December 15, 1999.

* (New Jersey data were not available for the third and fourth quarters of 1998 and therefore are not shown in this table. Totals for the United States were calculated using estimated data for New Jersey.) For purposes of ranking, it was assumed that 1998 annual average pay for New Jersey was the same as 1997.

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