Counties in Mississippi by wages and salaries paid

Hinds County had the highest wages and salaries paid of 82 counties in 2023, at $7.26 billion. Issaquena County had the lowest, at $9.43 million. The median was $302.64 million and the figure for Mississippi was $62.61 billion. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Highest7,256.1Hinds County

Lowest9.4Issaquena County

Median302.682 counties

Mississippi62,614.2History

Map of counties, 2023

Under 110
110 to 220
220 to 300
300 to 530
530 to 1,100
1,100 and over

USD million, 2023. Source: BEA, CAINC4: personal income by major component, wages and salaries (published in thousands of dollars, shown in millions), individual counties and county equivalents. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

Top 40 counties, 2023

USD million. Source: BEA, CAINC4: personal income by major component, wages and salaries (published in thousands of dollars, shown in millions), individual counties and county equivalents. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Counties	2023 USD million	Change on 2022
1	Hinds County	7,256.1	+2%
2	Harrison County	5,329.4	+5.6%
3	Rankin County	4,079.7	+8.6%
4	Madison County	3,819.5	+7.6%
5	DeSoto County	3,689	+5.5%
6	Jackson County	3,352.2	+4.4%
7	Lee County	3,031.9	+1.2%
8	Forrest County	2,294.6	+3.5%
9	Lauderdale County	1,763.9	+3.1%
10	Lowndes County	1,671	+5.5%
11	Jones County	1,461.1	-2.2%
12	Lafayette County	1,405.2	+4.9%
13	Warren County	1,165.5	+3.4%
14	Hancock County	1,096.5	+8.6%
15	Oktibbeha County	1,080.4	+4.3%
16	Lamar County	1,022	+3%
17	Alcorn County	721	+5.8%
18	Washington County	716.5	+2.2%
19	Lincoln County	669.1	+3.4%
20	Pike County	667.6	+4.9%
21	Scott County	652.5	+6.7%
22	Union County	643.6	+5%
23	Leflore County	643.4	-0.7%
24	Neshoba County	612.6	+5.5%
25	Marshall County	596.7	+11.1%
26	Pontotoc County	551	+1.6%
27	Pearl River County	541.5	+7.1%
28	Bolivar County	530.2	+7.6%
29	Monroe County	517.6	-1.8%
30	Panola County	508.2	+4%
31	Adams County	492.9	+1%
32	Grenada County	468	-1%
33	Marion County	458.6	+8.5%
34	Sunflower County	404.5	+14.1%
35	Yazoo County	366.9	+9.9%
36	Prentiss County	348.8	+2.1%
37	Clay County	347.3	+9.2%
38	Tippah County	336.9	+6.1%
39	Coahoma County	335.6	+2.6%
40	Tishomingo County	317.2	+3.9%
41	Simpson County	310.3	+12.1%
42	Tate County	295	+7.1%
43	Tunica County	291.3	+8.1%
44	Winston County	282.5	+8.6%
45	Itawamba County	275.2	-0%
46	Copiah County	273.6	+3.8%
47	Covington County	270.2	+1.8%
48	Wayne County	243.1	-1%
49	George County	241.3	+9.4%
50	Newton County	238.8	-1.3%
51	Stone County	235.9	+10.4%
52	Leake County	234.4	+2.7%
53	Claiborne County	231.2	-3.5%
54	Jasper County	227.3	+7.1%
55	Attala County	223.7	+4.1%
56	Chickasaw County	196.1	-2.6%
57	Lawrence County	157.5	+8.3%
58	Clarke County	149.3	+19.9%
59	Smith County	148.9	+1.4%
60	Tallahatchie County	142.1	+12.6%
61	Holmes County	140.6	+3.1%
62	Calhoun County	139.2	+7.1%
63	Yalobusha County	133.2	+4.9%
64	Choctaw County	128.3	+3%
65	Montgomery County	116.7	+7.1%
66	Perry County	108.7	-3.8%
67	Amite County	107.6	+6.3%
68	Walthall County	106	+1%
69	Noxubee County	105.1	+2.1%
70	Webster County	96.6	+4.5%
71	Kemper County	93.8	+7.6%
72	Greene County	92.3	+9.6%
73	Humphreys County	85.6	+6.6%
74	Franklin County	83.1	+10.6%
75	Jefferson Davis County	73.2	+3.4%
76	Wilkinson County	70.2	+5.3%
77	Benton County	54.5	+1.3%
78	Carroll County	53.5	+4.1%
79	Jefferson County	51.7	+5.9%
80	Quitman County	45.6	+8%
81	Sharkey County	43.6	+2.2%
82	Issaquena County	9.4	+15.1%

Other periods

About this ranking

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.

Counted where the jobs are, not where the workers live, so places with many commuters coming in can pay more in wages than their residents receive in personal income (the District of Columbia does). Excludes employer contributions to pensions, insurance and social security, and the income of the self-employed.

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

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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.

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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. (2026). CAINC4: personal income by major component, wages and salaries (published in thousands of dollars, shown in millions), individual counties and county equivalents (Counties in Mississippi by wages and salaries paid, 2023) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/CAINC4.zip

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CAINC4: personal income by major component, wages and salaries (published in thousands of dollars, shown in millions), individual counties and county equivalents, Counties in Mississippi by wages and salaries paid, 2023. U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, 5 Feb. 2026, https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/CAINC4.zip. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/wages-and-salaries/mississippi-counties?period=2023. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. 2026. CAINC4: personal income by major component, wages and salaries (published in thousands of dollars, shown in millions), individual counties and county equivalents. Counties in Mississippi by wages and salaries paid, 2023. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/CAINC4.zip. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/wages-and-salaries/mississippi-counties?period=2023.

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U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (2026) CAINC4: personal income by major component, wages and salaries (published in thousands of dollars, shown in millions), individual counties and county equivalents, Counties in Mississippi by wages and salaries paid, 2023 [Dataset]. Available at: https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/CAINC4.zip, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/wages-and-salaries/mississippi-counties?period=2023 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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Which county has the highest wages and salaries paid?

Hinds County, with $7.26 billion in 2023, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Which county has the lowest wages and salaries paid?

Issaquena County, with $9.43 million in 2023.

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Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: 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. Retrieved 2026-10-12.