# US states by wages and salaries paid, 2025

All 51 values come from U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis for 2025, 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, SAINC4: personal income and employment by major component, wages and salaries, millions of current dollars, United States and states (https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAINC.zip)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-economic-analysis
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. SAINC4: personal income and employment by major component, wages and salaries, millions of current dollars, United States and states. https://apps.bea.gov/regional/zip/SAINC.zip. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/wages-and-salaries/us-states

| Rank | Place | USD million |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California | 1,865,976.6 |
| 2 | Texas | 1,146,973.7 |
| 3 | New York | 1,011,742.2 |
| 4 | Florida | 773,854 |
| 5 | Illinois | 517,347.8 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | 466,795.9 |
| 7 | Ohio | 401,806 |
| 8 | Georgia | 386,684.2 |
| 9 | North Carolina | 384,806.1 |
| 10 | New Jersey | 382,708 |
| 11 | Washington | 377,966.6 |
| 12 | Massachusetts | 373,817.9 |
| 13 | Virginia | 363,345.4 |
| 14 | Michigan | 321,595.5 |
| 15 | Colorado | 261,972.3 |
| 16 | Arizona | 251,002.3 |
| 17 | Maryland | 244,135.4 |
| 18 | Tennessee | 238,657.6 |
| 19 | Minnesota | 234,087.2 |
| 20 | Indiana | 222,159.5 |
| 21 | Missouri | 208,951.3 |
| 22 | Wisconsin | 207,870 |
| 23 | South Carolina | 160,343.2 |
| 24 | Connecticut | 159,324.3 |
| 25 | Oregon | 153,633.1 |
| 26 | Alabama | 143,732.8 |
| 27 | Louisiana | 133,441.6 |
| 28 | Kentucky | 132,417.5 |
| 29 | Utah | 130,054.9 |
| 30 | Nevada | 115,224.6 |
| 31 | Oklahoma | 113,366.9 |
| 32 | Iowa | 102,536.7 |
| 33 | Kansas | 99,659.9 |
| 34 | District of Columbia | 99,174.9 |
| 35 | Arkansas | 86,522.1 |
| 36 | Nebraska | 70,670.1 |
| 37 | Mississippi | 68,696 |
| 38 | New Mexico | 59,711.5 |
| 39 | Idaho | 58,067.2 |
| 40 | New Hampshire | 57,392.3 |
| 41 | Hawaii | 51,402.9 |
| 42 | Maine | 45,499.2 |
| 43 | West Virginia | 43,619.4 |
| 44 | Rhode Island | 38,137.7 |
| 45 | Delaware | 38,048.3 |
| 46 | Montana | 34,149.3 |
| 47 | North Dakota | 30,955.3 |
| 48 | South Dakota | 29,558.9 |
| 49 | Alaska | 29,064.7 |
| 50 | Vermont | 21,460.4 |
| 51 | Wyoming | 19,464.7 |