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Pillar of the index

Labour market

How tight the market is, and which way it moved last month.

Every jurisdiction ranked on labour market

Labour market across the United StatesAlabama: 49 · rank 25Alaska: 26 · rank 44Arizona: 37 · rank 38Arkansas: 37 · rank 38California: 15 · rank 48Colorado: 68 · rank 10Connecticut: 40 · rank 35Delaware: 12 · rank 50District of Columbia: 44 · rank 34Florida: 40 · rank 35Georgia: 45 · rank 32Hawaii: 63 · rank 15Idaho: 67 · rank 11Illinois: 47 · rank 28Indiana: 47 · rank 28Iowa: 47 · rank 28Kansas: 54 · rank 20Kentucky: 45 · rank 32Louisiana: 61 · rank 18Maine: 72 · rank 6Maryland: 71 · rank 7Massachusetts: 24 · rank 46Michigan: 46 · rank 31Minnesota: 36 · rank 41Mississippi: 79 · rank 3Missouri: 76 · rank 5Montana: 77 · rank 4Nebraska: 64 · rank 14Nevada: 49 · rank 25New Hampshire: 81 · rank 1New Jersey: 14 · rank 49New Mexico: 26 · rank 44New York: 18 · rank 47North Carolina: 51 · rank 23North Dakota: 51 · rank 23Ohio: 67 · rank 11Oklahoma: 48 · rank 27Oregon: 6 · rank 51Pennsylvania: 36 · rank 41Rhode Island: 63 · rank 15South Carolina: 63 · rank 15South Dakota: 70 · rank 8Tennessee: 57 · rank 19Texas: 37 · rank 38Utah: 53 · rank 21Vermont: 81 · rank 1Virginia: 30 · rank 43Washington: 52 · rank 22West Virginia: 38 · rank 37Wisconsin: 65 · rank 13Wyoming: 69 · rank 9
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. 1NH New Hampshire81
  2. 1VT Vermont81
  3. 3MS Mississippi79
  4. 4MT Montana77
  5. 5MO Missouri76
  6. 6ME Maine72
  7. 7MD Maryland71
  8. 8SD South Dakota70
  9. 9WY Wyoming69
  10. 10CO Colorado68
  11. 11OH Ohio67
  12. 11ID Idaho67
  13. 13WI Wisconsin65
  14. 14NE Nebraska64
  15. 15HI Hawaii63
  16. 15SC South Carolina63
  17. 15RI Rhode Island63
  18. 18LA Louisiana61
  19. 19TN Tennessee57
  20. 20KS Kansas54
  21. 21UT Utah53
  22. 22WA Washington52
  23. 23NC North Carolina51
  24. 23ND North Dakota51
  25. 25NV Nevada49
  26. 25AL Alabama49
  27. 27OK Oklahoma48
  28. 28IA Iowa47
  29. 28IL Illinois47
  30. 28IN Indiana47
  31. 31MI Michigan46
  32. 32GA Georgia45
  33. 32KY Kentucky45
  34. 34DC Washington, D.C.44
  35. 35FL Florida40
  36. 35CT Connecticut40
  37. 37WV West Virginia38
  38. 38TX Texas37
  39. 38AZ Arizona37
  40. 38AR Arkansas37
  41. 41MN Minnesota36
  42. 41PA Pennsylvania36
  43. 43VA Virginia30
  44. 44AK Alaska26
  45. 44NM New Mexico26
  46. 46MA Massachusetts24
  47. 47NY New York18
  48. 48CA California15
  49. 49NJ New Jersey14
  50. 50DE Delaware12
  51. 51OR Oregon6

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 labour market 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
Unemployment rate2.0%South Dakota5.9%Washington, D.C.U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Employment change, latest month+0.42%Maryland-0.58%New JerseyU.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

Labour market — every state ranked — Applied America