Indicators / United States / Jobs and pay
Average weekly wage
US$ · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, via economicdata.dev · jobs covered by unemployment insurance, before tax, not adjusted for inflation
- United States, 2025
- $1,514
- States with a figure
- 53 2025
- Counties with a figure
- 3,221 2025
Show the numbers (12 rows)
| Year | United States |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 1514 |
| 2024 | 1454 |
| 2023 | 1392 |
| 2022 | 1346 |
| 2021 | 1300 |
| 2020 | 1231 |
| 2019 | 1139 |
| 2018 | 1101 |
| 2017 | 1065 |
| 2016 | 1031 |
| 2015 | 1018 |
| 2014 | 988 |
Every state, 2025
| Rank | State | Average weekly wage | 1 yr | 5 yr | 10 yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | District of Columbia | $2,479 | +4.8% | +20.4% | +46.2% |
| 2 | Massachusetts | $1,925 | +4.1% | +19.5% | +50.1% |
| 3 | New York | $1,922 | +5.1% | +20.2% | +48.0% |
| 4 | Washington | $1,917 | +4.9% | +29.8% | +75.9% |
| 5 | California | $1,865 | +5.2% | +22.0% | +57.2% |
| 6 | Connecticut | $1,750 | +4.0% | +20.8% | +38.8% |
| 7 | New Jersey | $1,659 | +3.5% | +16.6% | +38.3% |
| 8 | Colorado | $1,618 | +4.8% | +26.3% | +55.3% |
| 9 | Maryland | $1,568 | +3.3% | +18.4% | +42.6% |
| 10 | New Hampshire | $1,556 | +4.5% | +24.7% | +53.9% |
| 11 | Virginia | $1,540 | +3.1% | +22.9% | +47.6% |
| 12 | Illinois | $1,539 | +3.6% | +20.8% | +43.0% |
| 13 | Texas | $1,499 | +3.4% | +24.0% | +43.6% |
| 14 | Minnesota | $1,480 | +3.7% | +19.9% | +43.7% |
| 15 | Delaware | $1,455 | +4.5% | +21.1% | +40.1% |
| 16 | Alaska | $1,450 | +4.9% | +22.1% | +37.7% |
| 17 | Pennsylvania | $1,429 | +3.6% | +19.8% | +42.4% |
| 18 | Oregon | $1,417 | +3.4% | +23.0% | +52.5% |
| 19 | Georgia | $1,404 | +3.4% | +24.0% | +47.4% |
| 20 | Arizona | $1,402 | +3.5% | +24.8% | +52.1% |
| 21 | Florida | $1,399 | +4.8% | +30.3% | +57.3% |
| 22 | North Carolina | $1,376 | +4.1% | +27.3% | +53.7% |
| 23 | Rhode Island | $1,368 | +4.1% | +17.5% | +40.4% |
| 24 | Michigan | $1,362 | +3.7% | +19.1% | +41.4% |
| 25 | Hawaii | $1,359 | +4.9% | +21.9% | +50.6% |
| 26 | Tennessee | $1,354 | +4.4% | +27.7% | +50.6% |
| 27 | Nevada | $1,342 | +4.0% | +24.6% | +52.6% |
| 28 | Utah | $1,333 | +3.6% | +26.3% | +56.4% |
| 29 | Ohio | $1,313 | +3.6% | +22.2% | +44.9% |
| 30 | North Dakota | $1,300 | +2.9% | +21.8% | +33.3% |
| 31 | Vermont | $1,293 | +4.3% | +24.3% | +52.0% |
| 32 | Missouri | $1,278 | +3.9% | +23.0% | +45.9% |
| 33 | Wisconsin | $1,272 | +4.3% | +23.0% | +45.8% |
| 34 | Maine | $1,265 | +4.1% | +26.6% | +57.4% |
| 35 | Indiana | $1,251 | +3.7% | +25.2% | +48.2% |
| 36 | Alabama | $1,240 | +3.9% | +23.5% | +45.6% |
| 37 | South Carolina | $1,226 | +4.5% | +28.6% | +51.7% |
| 38 | Wyoming | $1,222 | +3.1% | +24.6% | +37.2% |
| 39 | Iowa | $1,221 | +3.5% | +21.3% | +43.9% |
| 40 | Kansas | $1,216 | +4.0% | +22.8% | +44.1% |
| 41 | New Mexico | $1,214 | +3.6% | +25.3% | +48.3% |
| 42 | Louisiana | $1,213 | +2.9% | +21.4% | +37.4% |
| 43 | Nebraska | $1,213 | +3.3% | +22.5% | +47.2% |
| 44 | Montana | $1,209 | +4.7% | +29.8% | +57.0% |
| 45 | Kentucky | $1,202 | +3.5% | +23.1% | +44.2% |
| 46 | Idaho | $1,200 | +4.7% | +30.8% | +60.6% |
| 47 | Arkansas | $1,176 | +4.7% | +25.6% | +49.5% |
| 48 | Oklahoma | $1,173 | +3.9% | +23.1% | +37.7% |
| 49 | South Dakota | $1,165 | +3.9% | +23.2% | +50.8% |
| 50 | West Virginia | $1,161 | +3.6% | +23.8% | +44.6% |
| 51 | U.S. Virgin Islands | $1,046 | +3.6% | +1.4% | +38.9% |
| 52 | Mississippi | $1,024 | +4.4% | +23.1% | +41.4% |
| 53 | Puerto Rico | $700 | +3.2% | +23.2% | +32.6% |
Rank 1 is the highest value. States are the 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands where they have a figure.
Highest and lowest counties, 2025
| Highest | State | Average weekly wage |
|---|---|---|
| San Mateo County | California | $4,121 |
| Santa Clara County | California | $4,075 |
| San Francisco County | California | $3,776 |
| New York County | New York | $3,399 |
| Suffolk County | Massachusetts | $2,658 |
| North Slope Borough | Alaska | $2,639 |
| King County | Washington | $2,632 |
| Western Connecticut Planning Region | Connecticut | $2,607 |
| Arlington County | Virginia | $2,521 |
| District of Columbia | District of Columbia | $2,479 |
| Lowest | State | Average weekly wage |
|---|---|---|
| Las Marías Municipio | Puerto Rico | $411 |
| Adjuntas Municipio | Puerto Rico | $436 |
| Cabo Rojo Municipio | Puerto Rico | $453 |
| San Sebastián Municipio | Puerto Rico | $454 |
| Lajas Municipio | Puerto Rico | $465 |
| Guánica Municipio | Puerto Rico | $474 |
| Quebradillas Municipio | Puerto Rico | $477 |
| Lares Municipio | Puerto Rico | $477 |
| Hormigueros Municipio | Puerto Rico | $483 |
| Camuy Municipio | Puerto Rico | $486 |
Every county's figure is on its own page, in its profile table, with its rank among all counties and within its state.
Get this data
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curl https://visualizedata.org/data/us-indicators/us-weekly-wage.jsonEvery place from economicdata.dev (live, no key; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, this exact version):
curl "https://api.economicdata.dev/v1/qcew@2026-10-26.555cc1e983/download/qcew.parquet"Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (U.S. public domain): QCEW total covered, annual average weekly wage.
- Read through economicdata.dev, dataset qcew, version 2026-10-26.555cc1e983; its 48 input files from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics are named with their sha256 in this page's data, and the site's checks recompute every figure from them.
- A year counts once all four of its quarters are published and none is suppressed. Jobs is the mean of the year's twelve monthly counts; the average weekly wage is the year's total wages divided by that mean and by 52, as BLS computes its annual averages.
- BLS publishes each quarter about five months after it ends; economicdata.dev re-reads it daily.
- 14 areas in the source are not places in the geo registry and are left out: us-county-02261, us-county-02270, us-county-09001, us-county-09003, us-county-09005, us-county-09007, us-county-09009, us-county-09011, us-county-09013, us-county-09015, us-county-46113, us-county-78010, us-county-78020, us-county-78030 (Connecticut's former counties, retired Alaska and South Dakota codes, the Virgin Islands).
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