Employment - Wage per job (2022) To resort data: click column headings. To download data: click here. Name Wage Per Job Rank Wage Per Job Massachusetts 1 $89,731 New York 2 $89,564 California 3 $84,376 Washington 4 $83,987 Connecticut 5 $81,237 New Jersey 6 $78,549 Colorado 7 $74,407 Maryland 8 $73,609 Illinois 9 $72,767 New Hampshire 10 $72,217 Virginia 11 $71,136 Minnesota 12 $69,723 Texas 13 $69,609 Delaware 14 $67,877 Pennsylvania 15 $67,281 Oregon 16 $66,344 Georgia 17 $65,820 Alaska 18 $65,297 Arizona 19 $64,724 Rhode Island 20 $64,501 Michigan 21 $63,881 Florida 22 $63,762 North Carolina 23 $63,181 Tennessee 24 $62,097 Nevada 25 $61,976 Hawaii 26 $61,483 Utah 27 $61,178 Ohio 28 $61,000 North Dakota 29 $60,215 Vermont 30 $59,584 Wisconsin 31 $59,229 Missouri 32 $59,225 Maine 33 $58,132 Indiana 34 $58,061 Iowa 35 $57,375 Alabama 36 $57,340 Nebraska 37 $57,287 Louisiana 38 $56,605 Wyoming 39 $56,330 Kansas 40 $56,191 Kentucky 41 $55,782 South Carolina 42 $55,542 New Mexico 43 $55,333 Montana 44 $54,525 Idaho 45 $54,188 South Dakota 46 $54,057 Arkansas 47 $54,012 Oklahoma 48 $53,989 West Virginia 49 $53,172 Mississippi 50 $47,420 Source: 2006-2021: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), (https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/dsrv?en); DATE LAST UPDATED: July 10, 2022; CPI updated February 23, 2022.