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Pillar of the index

Productive base

Output per worker and how much of the job base is manufacturing.

Every jurisdiction ranked on productive base

Productive base across the United StatesAlabama: no valueAlaska: 47 · rank 29Arizona: 36 · rank 38Arkansas: 46 · rank 30California: 64 · rank 10Colorado: 49 · rank 27Connecticut: 76 · rank 1Delaware: 59 · rank 16District of Columbia: no valueFlorida: 34 · rank 42Georgia: 53 · rank 24Hawaii: 35 · rank 40Idaho: 28 · rank 45Illinois: 76 · rank 1Indiana: 67 · rank 9Iowa: 68 · rank 7Kansas: 58 · rank 18Kentucky: 56 · rank 22Louisiana: 41 · rank 36Maine: 33 · rank 43Maryland: 38 · rank 37Massachusetts: 60 · rank 14Michigan: 60 · rank 14Minnesota: 69 · rank 4Mississippi: 42 · rank 34Missouri: 48 · rank 28Montana: 11 · rank 49Nebraska: 70 · rank 3Nevada: 35 · rank 40New Hampshire: 61 · rank 13New Jersey: 50 · rank 26New Mexico: 19 · rank 48New York: 56 · rank 22North Carolina: 59 · rank 16North Dakota: 58 · rank 18Ohio: 69 · rank 4Oklahoma: 26 · rank 46Oregon: 45 · rank 33Pennsylvania: 51 · rank 25Rhode Island: 33 · rank 43South Carolina: 46 · rank 30South Dakota: 63 · rank 11Tennessee: 69 · rank 4Texas: 57 · rank 21Utah: 58 · rank 18Vermont: 36 · rank 38Virginia: 46 · rank 30Washington: 68 · rank 7West Virginia: 21 · rank 47Wisconsin: 63 · rank 11Wyoming: 42 · rank 34
A map sizes states by land area, not by value — Wyoming shouts and Rhode Island vanishes. The ranked list beside it is the reading.
  1. 1CT Connecticut76
  2. 1IL Illinois76
  3. 3NE Nebraska70
  4. 4TN Tennessee69
  5. 4MN Minnesota69
  6. 4OH Ohio69
  7. 7WA Washington68
  8. 7IA Iowa68
  9. 9IN Indiana67
  10. 10CA California64
  11. 11SD South Dakota63
  12. 11WI Wisconsin63
  13. 13NH New Hampshire61
  14. 14MA Massachusetts60
  15. 14MI Michigan60
  16. 16NC North Carolina59
  17. 16DE Delaware59
  18. 18UT Utah58
  19. 18KS Kansas58
  20. 18ND North Dakota58
  21. 21TX Texas57
  22. 22NY New York56
  23. 22KY Kentucky56
  24. 24GA Georgia53
  25. 25PA Pennsylvania51
  26. 26NJ New Jersey50
  27. 27CO Colorado49
  28. 28MO Missouri48
  29. 29AK Alaska47
  30. 30VA Virginia46
  31. 30SC South Carolina46
  32. 30AR Arkansas46
  33. 33OR Oregon45
  34. 34WY Wyoming42
  35. 34MS Mississippi42
  36. 36LA Louisiana41
  37. 37MD Maryland38
  38. 38VT Vermont36
  39. 38AZ Arizona36
  40. 40HI Hawaii35
  41. 40NV Nevada35
  42. 42FL Florida34
  43. 43ME Maine33
  44. 43RI Rhode Island33
  45. 45ID Idaho28
  46. 46OK Oklahoma26
  47. 47WV West Virginia21
  48. 48NM New Mexico19
  49. 49MT Montana11
  50. —DC Washington, D.C.Not scored — Manufacturing share of jobs
  51. —AL AlabamaNot scored — Manufacturing share of jobs

What this pillar is built from, and the range behind the score

A percentile says how many jurisdictions a state beats and says nothing about by how much. The productive base score is the average of 2 indicators, and below is each one's top and bottom in its own units — the part the rank above deliberately discards. Highest and lowest mean best and worst for economic development, which for some of these series is the lower figure; where an end is shared, the table says how many jurisdictions share it.

IndicatorHighestLowestSource
Output per worker$479,240Washington, D.C.$128,938MississippiU.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Manufacturing share of jobs2 without a published value15.7%Indiana2.0%HawaiiU.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Scores are percentile ranks within the 51 jurisdictions, so they say how many a state beats rather than by how much. Adjacent positions can represent trivial real differences; the state profile prints the underlying figure for every indicator.

The whole index

Productive base — every state ranked — Applied America