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Best and Worst States to Make A Living 2014 – All 50 States
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Key Takeaways
- Washington was the best place to make a living in 2014.
- North Carolina was #25, or right in the middle of the best vs. worst places to make a living in 2014.
- Hawaii was the hardest place to make a living due to the high cost of living and low wages.
So your state wasn’t one of the Best States to Make a Living or Worst States to Make a Living? You can see how it fared below in the full 50-state rankings.
Again, these rankings are based on each state’s Compensation and Quality Factor, a proprietary metric based on these factors in each area:
- Average salary, according to figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
- Cost of living, based on data from C2ER.
- Employment rate, based on BLS data.
- Workplace conditions, based on the “Work Environment” component of the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.
Here are all 50 U.S. states as ranked by their working conditions in the 2014 MoneyRates analysis: