A Labor Day scorecard created by the pro-labor group Oxfam ranks DC at No. 1 and North Carolina the worst.
”Survey says” looks at various rankings and scorecards judging geographic locations while noting these grades are best seen as a mix of artful interpretation and data.California is the second-best place to be a worker in the U.S., according to a Labor Day scorecard created by a pro-labor group.My trusty spreadsheet looked at the annual Best States to Work Index from Oxfam, which weighs 27 workplace policy issues to measure the strength of worker rights in each state.
So, if you look at Oxfam’s top 10 states to work, they average $78,400 in annualized wages. Pay in the bottom 10 averages $64,200 – or 18% less. Plus, the top 10 is 15% unionized, vs. 8% for the bottom 10. Yet ponder that the top 10 average job growth was just 1.7% since 2019. The bottom 10? Jobs were up 6.2% – nearly quadruple the pace.
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