Comparison
California vs Wyoming
They differ most on labour market — Wyoming leads by 54 points. How tight the market is, and which way it moved last month.
This ordering turns on the weighting
The 8 pillars are averaged equally, which is declared rather than tuned. 20,000 other weightings were drawn and the whole table re-ranked under each; restricted to the ones a person could defend — every pillar between 6.25% and 25% of the total — California ranks between 15 and 39 and Wyoming between 12 and 30. Wyoming is published ahead of California at 19 against 25, but 8,941 of those 20,000 weightings — 44.7% — put California first. The ordering of these two is a property of the weighting as much as of the states. Read the pillars below instead: those are measured, and the weighting does not touch them.
875 of the 1,275 possible pairings of these 51 jurisdictions are reversed by some defensible weighting. Most comparisons a reader can build on this site do not have a defensible ordering, and the ones that do are worth more than the rank beside them.
Pillar by pillar, widest divergence first
- 1569Labour market54 apart — California 15, Wyoming 69
- 8836Population health52 apart — California 88, Wyoming 36
- 1762Housing permits and prices45 apart — California 17, Wyoming 62
- 6318Openness45 apart — California 63, Wyoming 18
- 2972Starting up43 apart — California 29, Wyoming 72
- 8257Prosperity25 apart — California 82, Wyoming 57
- 6442Productive base22 apart — California 64, Wyoming 42
- 8492Fiscal standing8 apart — California 84, Wyoming 92
Tax structure
California
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Wyoming
No individual income tax
No corporate income tax
Census Bureau, Annual Survey of State Government Tax Collections. Where a state levies no such tax the survey records it, and so does this — the absence is a fact, not a gap.