Comparison
Hawaii vs Massachusetts
They differ most on labour market — Hawaii leads by 39 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 — Hawaii ranks between 11 and 39 and Massachusetts between 9 and 39. Hawaii is published ahead of Massachusetts at 19 against 19, but 11,864 of those 20,000 weightings — 59.3% — put Massachusetts 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
- 6324Labour market39 apart — Hawaii 63, Massachusetts 24
- 6797Prosperity30 apart — Hawaii 67, Massachusetts 97
- 3560Productive base25 apart — Hawaii 35, Massachusetts 60
- 215Housing permits and prices16 apart — Hawaii 21, Massachusetts 5
- 7562Openness13 apart — Hawaii 75, Massachusetts 62
- 415Starting up11 apart — Hawaii 4, Massachusetts 15
- 8492Fiscal standing8 apart — Hawaii 84, Massachusetts 92
- 9796Population health1 apart — Hawaii 97, Massachusetts 96
Tax structure
Hawaii
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
Massachusetts
Individual income tax levied
Corporate income tax levied
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.