The best states to find a job (and the worst)
Is your state full of employment opportunities, or a tough place to find a good job? A new study ranks how easy it is to find a job in every state and details the strength of each state's job market. How does your state rank?
The findings of the study, 2022's Best & Worst States for Jobs, from personal finance site WalletHub, are based on 35 key indicators of job-market strength, opportunity and a healthy economy, according to the site.
**The indicators include: **The number of job opportunities, employment growth, average starting salary, unemployment rate, annual income, time spent working and more.
South Dakota ranked number one overall and was the state with the highest employment growth
Coming in dead last was Kentucky, with low job opportunities and pay.
Which states have the most job opportunity
New Hampshire, Vermont and Nebraska ranked high for having the most available job opportunities; Hawaii, New York and California all had the least.
The states that pay the most
Washington took the top spot for highest monthly salary — employees living there make $3,734 per month
That’s almost two times higher than Alaska, where employees make an average of $1,970 per month, the lowest in the U.S.
New York, Texas, Georgia and Virginia round out the top five for highest salary, while the bottom are Maine, Mississippi, Vermont and Hawaii, with Alaska at number 50 for lowest average salary.
Find out where your state ranks
- South Dakota
- Nebraska
- Washington
- New Hampshire
- Utah
- North Dakota
- Kansas
- Vermont
- Delaware
- Colorado
- Wisconsin
- Minnesota
- Massachusetts
- Missouri
- Tennessee
- Virginia
- South Carolina
- Iowa
- Texas
- Idaho
- Wyoming
- Oklahoma
- California
- New Jersey
- North Carolina
- Montana
- Maine
- Rhode Island
- Oregon
- Ohio
- New York
- Arizona
- Maryland
- Alabama
- Georgia
- Arkansas
- Alaska
- Florida
- Indiana
- Connecticut
- Nevada
- Michigan
- New Mexico
- Illinois
- Mississippi
- Hawaii
- Louisiana
- Pennsylvania
- West Virginia
- Kentucky
Would you consider moving for better job opportunities? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
Comments
Yes yes please I am a laborer / hazmat / painter in Seattle,wa . Are there companies who will pay perdían somewhere else? I have 4 plus years experience.
What is the pay RATE FOR PERSON WITH TEN PLUS YEARS IN ACOUNTING IN FLORIDA. i LIVE IN Ohio now and can not tolerate the winer cold. I would liket to to move to the Brooksville or Dunedin area of Florida.
Yes I'm here in Kentucky and haven't been able to find a job in my field/ truck driver, class A driver that I have to have experience. Want to change careers but I have been driven over 35 years with class B
Yes
i’m from downtown Chicago, born and raised and I’ve been applying for jobs for the last 25 years of my life I had to raise my son for 25 years without a job imagine how hard that could’ve been to see immigrants owning all of our buildings they have all of our jobs I’ve never had opportunity, which really sucks because one I’m an American and two I’m smart the system is definitely working against us 101,000% where are the jobs for only Americans because if you look at these Chinese, they only hire Chinese if you look at arabs,, they only hire Arabs or Africans from Africa. Why not just hire Americans where are we? anyway, peace be with Americans.
Yes!!! I'm ready now!! Louisiana just doesn't have anything to offer
Ready like yesterday to move out of New York City
Ready to leave NYC NOW!!!!
Where would I even begin to start over at 61?????
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