US states by GDP by industry: government

California had the highest GDP by industry: government of 51 states in 2016, at $319.53 billion. Vermont had the lowest, at $4.52 billion. The median was $29.36 billion and the figure for the United States was $2.39 trillion. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Highest319,532.6California

Lowest4,516.9Vermont

Median29,355.751 states

United States2,391,859History

Map of states, 2016

Under 9,000
9,000 to 20K
20K to 29K
29K to 41K
41K to 69K
69K and over

USD million, 2016. Source: BEA, SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Government and government enterprises (NAICS 92), millions of current dollars. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

All states, 2016

USD million. Source: BEA, SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Government and government enterprises (NAICS 92), millions of current dollars. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	States	2016 USD million	Change on 2015
1	California	319,532.6	+4.3%
2	Texas	176,126.5	+3.9%
3	New York	158,238.1	+0.8%
4	Florida	109,110.7	+3.2%
5	Virginia	92,695.7	+3.5%
6	Illinois	79,439.3	+0.1%
7	Maryland	78,341.1	+2.5%
8	Pennsylvania	72,341.7	+1.8%
9	North Carolina	69,479.1	+1.8%
10	Ohio	68,897	+2.5%
11	Washington	65,958.2	+5%
12	Georgia	64,313.1	+0.8%
13	New Jersey	60,951.5	-0.9%
14	Massachusetts	51,982.9	+0.2%
15	Michigan	51,440.5	-0%
16	District of Columbia	42,876.8	+4%
17	Colorado	41,179.6	+4.2%
18	Arizona	40,842.4	+3.1%
19	Tennessee	38,063.3	+1.7%
20	Missouri	36,011.1	+1.1%
21	Alabama	34,698.2	+2.2%
22	Wisconsin	34,471.3	+1.2%
23	Minnesota	33,775.1	+1.4%
24	South Carolina	33,714.1	+4.6%
25	Indiana	32,297.5	+3.2%
26	Oklahoma	29,355.7	+1.2%
27	Oregon	27,830.5	+3%
28	Kentucky	27,455.2	-0.9%
29	Connecticut	27,053.1	+0.9%
30	Louisiana	27,024.1	+1.1%
31	New Mexico	22,611.1	+2.8%
32	Iowa	21,106.5	+3.8%
33	Kansas	20,874.6	+1.3%
34	Utah	20,053.2	+5.6%
35	Mississippi	19,280.6	+2.9%
36	Hawaii	18,068	+4.2%
37	Nevada	17,084.5	+4.5%
38	Arkansas	15,928.2	+1.6%
39	Nebraska	14,916	+4.6%
40	West Virginia	11,634.1	-0.7%
41	Alaska	10,714.6	+3.3%
42	Idaho	9,301.1	+3.3%
43	New Hampshire	8,547.2	+1.2%
44	Maine	8,394.8	+5.3%
45	Rhode Island	7,701	+1.6%
46	Montana	7,146.8	+4.2%
47	Delaware	6,725.3	+2.2%
48	Wyoming	6,179.1	+0.3%
49	North Dakota	5,961.7	+3.2%
50	South Dakota	5,288.8	+2.6%
51	Vermont	4,516.9	+1.4%

Other periods

About this ranking

Value added by government and government enterprises (federal civilian, military, and state and local government, including public schools and hospitals and enterprises such as the Postal Service) (NAICS 92), the industry's contribution to gross domestic product (GDP), in millions of current US dollars. United States and states: Bureau of Economic Analysis GDP by state, table SAGDP2, line 83.

Government value added is mostly the pay of public employees. For the United States it includes federal activity overseas (military and civilian staff abroad), so the national value is larger than the sum of the states. Millions of current US dollars, not adjusted for inflation; for real growth of the whole economy use gdp_growth. Industries are the sectors of the 2017 North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), counted where production takes place. The 20 sector values of a place add up to its gdp_usd, apart from rounding. BEA leaves out values that would disclose a single company, marked (D), and values below $50,000, marked (L); they are missing here, not zero.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Government and government enterprises (NAICS 92), millions of current dollars. https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAGDP.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. (2026). SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Government and government enterprises (NAICS 92), millions of current dollars (US states by GDP by industry: government, 2016) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAGDP.zip

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SAGDP2: gross domestic product (GDP) by state, Government and government enterprises (NAICS 92), millions of current dollars, US states by GDP by industry: government, 2016. U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 30 Sept. 2026, https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAGDP.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/gdp-by-industry-government/us-states?period=2016. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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Which state has the highest GDP by industry: government?

California, with $319.53 billion in 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Which state has the lowest GDP by industry: government?

Vermont, with $4.52 billion in 2016.

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