2023 Competitiveness Redbook 2023

State and Local FTE Average Annual Pay ( March 2021 )

Rank	State Avg FTE Salary	Local Avg FTE Salary	Rank
1 California	$ 78,072	$ 88,754	1
2 New York	$ 73,396	$ 77,823	4
3 New Jersey	$ 71,406	$ 76,960	5
4 Massachusetts	$ 69,758	$ 72,618	7
5 Connecticut	$ 67,120	$ 69,819	10
6 Washington	$ 65,778	$ 86,399	2
7 Alaska	$ 65,404	$ 71,396	8
8 Vermont	$ 65,353	$ 59,803	19
9 Illinois	$ 64,862	$ 69,092	12
10 Rhode Island	$ 64,389	$ 70,868	9
11 Pennsylvania	$ 63,620	$ 63,188	15
12 Oregon	$ 62,943	$ 69,602	11
13 Minnesota	$ 62,740	$ 64,354	14
14 Michigan	$ 62,325	$ 59,069	22
15 Maryland	$ 61,227	$ 72,710	6
16 Colorado	$ 59,651	$ 63,084	16
17 Texas	$ 58,735	$ 54,551	31
18 Nevada	$ 56,519	$ 67,465	13
19 Hawaii	$ 55,886	$ 78,475	3
20 Iowa	$ 55,651	$ 55,740	29
21 North Carolina	$ 55,527	$ 54,211	32
22 Virginia	$ 54,958	$ 57,869	25
23 New Mexico	$ 54,243	$ 50,444	38
24 Delaware	$ 54,130	$ 61,952	17
25 Idaho	$ 54,101	$ 49,385	44
26 Utah	$ 53,224	$ 57,938	24
27 New Hampshire	$ 52,354	$ 56,234	28
28 Ohio	$ 52,322	$ 58,893	23
29 Wisconsin	$ 52,286	$ 59,076	21
30 Wyoming	$ 51,935	$ 57,481	26
31 Kansas	$ 51,235	$ 49,583	43
32 Arizona	$ 50,441	$ 60,502	18
33 Florida	$ 49,968	$ 57,072	27
34 Arkansas	$ 49,821	$ 43,765	49
35 Kentucky	$ 49,679	$ 45,813	47
36 Tennessee	$ 49,679	$ 49,796	41
37 Alabama	$ 49,535	$ 49,597	42
38 North Dakota	$ 49,211	$ 55,473	30
39 South Carolina	$ 48,974	$ 51,544	36
40 Nebraska	$ 48,949	$ 59,719	20
41 Maine	$ 48,612	$ 52,132	35
42 Louisiana	$ 48,348	$ 46,490	46
43 Georgia	$ 48,264	$ 53,080	33
44 Mississippi	$ 47,723	$ 43,516	50
45 West Virginia	$ 47,360	$ 45,475	48
46 Oklahoma	$ 46,019	$ 48,306	45
47 Indiana	$ 45,889	$ 50,950	37
48 South Dakota	$ 45,876	$ 50,186	39
49 Montana	$ 45,739	$ 52,327	34
50 Missouri	$ 44,048	$ 50,162	40
Dist . of Columbia		$ 90,381
United States	$ 59,064	$ 63,823

From 2020 to 2021 , Washington ’ s rank droped from fifth to sixth for average state employee salary . Washington continued to have the second highest average local employee salary .

TABLE 18 Source : U . S . Census Bureau

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