# Counties in Iowa by wages and salaries paid, 2024

All 99 values come from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis for 2024, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `wages_and_salaries`
- Unit: USD million
- Definition: Total wages and salaries paid to employees for jobs located in a place, including tips, bonuses and pay in kind, before deductions, in millions of current US dollars. United States: Bureau of Economic Analysis regional accounts, table SAINC4 line 50 for the nation and states and CAINC4 line 50 for counties.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, CAINC4: personal income by major component, wages and salaries (published in thousands of dollars, shown in millions), individual counties and county equivalents (https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/CAINC4.zip)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-economic-analysis
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. CAINC4: personal income by major component, wages and salaries (published in thousands of dollars, shown in millions), individual counties and county equivalents. https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/CAINC4.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/wages-and-salaries/iowa-counties

| Rank | Place | USD million |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Polk County | 24,192.3 |
| 2 | Linn County | 8,871.8 |
| 3 | Scott County | 5,792.6 |
| 4 | Johnson County | 5,635.7 |
| 5 | Dallas County | 4,438.3 |
| 6 | Black Hawk County | 4,406.1 |
| 7 | Dubuque County | 3,573.8 |
| 8 | Story County | 3,084.5 |
| 9 | Woodbury County | 2,939.5 |
| 10 | Pottawattamie County | 2,477 |
| 11 | Muscatine County | 1,388.1 |
| 12 | Cerro Gordo County | 1,353.9 |
| 13 | Sioux County | 1,289.1 |
| 14 | Marion County | 1,280.3 |
| 15 | Des Moines County | 1,104.6 |
| 16 | Clinton County | 1,070.6 |
| 17 | Webster County | 1,044.9 |
| 18 | Marshall County | 930.6 |
| 19 | Lee County | 858.1 |
| 20 | Wapello County | 850.5 |
| 21 | Plymouth County | 727.9 |
| 22 | Warren County | 716.6 |
| 23 | Carroll County | 586.8 |
| 24 | Buena Vista County | 581.4 |
| 25 | Poweshiek County | 573.9 |
| 26 | Winneshiek County | 568.5 |
| 27 | Jasper County | 561.3 |
| 28 | Bremer County | 541.4 |
| 29 | Boone County | 527.6 |
| 30 | Dickinson County | 487 |
| 31 | Clay County | 484.2 |
| 32 | Iowa County | 465.9 |
| 33 | Mahaska County | 460.3 |
| 34 | Washington County | 445.7 |
| 35 | Henry County | 442.7 |
| 36 | Jefferson County | 398 |
| 37 | Delaware County | 377.3 |
| 38 | Crawford County | 370.4 |
| 39 | Hancock County | 363.4 |
| 40 | Kossuth County | 362.8 |
| 41 | Fayette County | 361.3 |
| 42 | Hardin County | 359.2 |
| 43 | Buchanan County | 353.8 |
| 44 | Clayton County | 346.7 |
| 45 | Benton County | 345.2 |
| 46 | Wright County | 344 |
| 47 | Jones County | 332.8 |
| 48 | Floyd County | 329.9 |
| 49 | O'Brien County | 329.6 |
| 50 | Hamilton County | 316.7 |
| 51 | Union County | 311.7 |
| 52 | Page County | 308.7 |
| 53 | Cass County | 300.1 |
| 54 | Chickasaw County | 294.6 |
| 55 | Shelby County | 291.2 |
| 56 | Jackson County | 283.2 |
| 57 | Tama County | 274.5 |
| 58 | Cedar County | 273.6 |
| 59 | Cherokee County | 260.3 |
| 60 | Grundy County | 259 |
| 61 | Monroe County | 257.8 |
| 62 | Lyon County | 248 |
| 63 | Clarke County | 237 |
| 64 | Allamakee County | 231.1 |
| 65 | Madison County | 227.4 |
| 66 | Ida County | 226.6 |
| 67 | Montgomery County | 224.3 |
| 68 | Appanoose County | 224.2 |
| 69 | Harrison County | 220.3 |
| 70 | Franklin County | 219.9 |
| 71 | Butler County | 219.5 |
| 72 | Mitchell County | 218 |
| 73 | Howard County | 217.2 |
| 74 | Louisa County | 215.3 |
| 75 | Humboldt County | 207.1 |
| 76 | Winnebago County | 205 |
| 77 | Mills County | 200.3 |
| 78 | Greene County | 188.3 |
| 79 | Guthrie County | 188 |
| 80 | Palo Alto County | 180.6 |
| 81 | Lucas County | 176.5 |
| 82 | Adair County | 172.1 |
| 83 | Sac County | 171 |
| 84 | Emmet County | 169.1 |
| 85 | Pocahontas County | 150.7 |
| 86 | Calhoun County | 146.6 |
| 87 | Fremont County | 144.5 |
| 88 | Osceola County | 129.5 |
| 89 | Monona County | 125.3 |
| 90 | Keokuk County | 119.5 |
| 91 | Worth County | 116 |
| 92 | Wayne County | 113.1 |
| 93 | Taylor County | 110.2 |
| 94 | Davis County | 110 |
| 95 | Decatur County | 106 |
| 96 | Audubon County | 95.2 |
| 97 | Van Buren County | 95 |
| 98 | Ringgold County | 68.9 |
| 99 | Adams County | 63.5 |