Comparison
Wisconsin vs Wyoming
They differ most on starting up — Wyoming leads by 35 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 — Wisconsin ranks between 14 and 28 and Wyoming between 12 and 30. Wisconsin is published ahead of Wyoming at 19 against 19, but 9,009 of those 20,000 weightings — 45.0% — put Wyoming 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
- 3772Starting up35 apart — Wisconsin 37, Wyoming 72
- 5118Openness33 apart — Wisconsin 51, Wyoming 18
- 6342Productive base21 apart — Wisconsin 63, Wyoming 42
- 4257Prosperity15 apart — Wisconsin 42, Wyoming 57
- 4136Population health5 apart — Wisconsin 41, Wyoming 36
- 6569Labour market4 apart — Wisconsin 65, Wyoming 69
- 6062Housing permits and prices2 apart — Wisconsin 60, Wyoming 62
- 9292Fiscal standinglevel — Wisconsin 92, Wyoming 92
Tax structure
Wisconsin
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.