Comparison
Alaska vs Nevada
They differ most on starting up — Alaska leads by 29 points. How many businesses get founded here, and what the state takes in tax.
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 — Alaska ranks between 34 and 48 and Nevada between 41 and 46. Alaska is published ahead of Nevada at 44 against 44, but 7,700 of those 20,000 weightings — 38.5% — put Nevada 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
- 8859Starting up29 apart — Alaska 88, Nevada 59
- 2649Labour market23 apart — Alaska 26, Nevada 49
- 5231Prosperity21 apart — Alaska 52, Nevada 31
- 7692Fiscal standing16 apart — Alaska 76, Nevada 92
- 4735Productive base12 apart — Alaska 47, Nevada 35
- 2938Population health9 apart — Alaska 29, Nevada 38
- 4452Housing permits and prices8 apart — Alaska 44, Nevada 52
- 00Opennesslevel — Alaska 0, Nevada 0
Tax structure
Alaska
No individual income tax
Corporate income tax levied
Nevada
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.