US States With the Highest Real Income per Person, Adjusted for Local Prices

51 US states ranked by real income per person, adjusted for local prices, from highest to lowest. First are District of Columbia (79,990), Wyoming (75,323) and Connecticut (71,915). The middle one of the 51 has 57,242.

What this measures

Income per person after allowing for how expensive the state is. The Bureau of Economic Analysis takes all the income residents receive, divides it by the state's price level and by the rise in US prices since 2017, then by the number of residents. The result is in 2017 dollars that buy about the same amount in every state. For states only. Source: BEA Regional Price Parities.

For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.

Every state

Rank	State	2017 US$
1	District of Columbia	79,990
2	Wyoming	75,323
3	Connecticut	71,915
4	South Dakota	69,861
5	Massachusetts	69,372
6	North Dakota	67,383
7	Nebraska	65,780
8	Colorado	65,363
9	New York	63,093
10	New Hampshire	62,459
11	New Jersey	62,191
12	Washington	62,138
13	Minnesota	61,394
14	Virginia	60,556
15	Montana	60,386
16	Illinois	60,348
17	California	60,100
18	Maryland	59,922
19	Kansas	58,664
20	Iowa	58,646
21	Alaska	58,204
22	Vermont	58,061
23	Pennsylvania	58,027
24	Wisconsin	57,791
25	Texas	57,708
26	Tennessee	57,242
27	Oklahoma	56,986
28	Missouri	56,912
29	Nevada	56,600
30	Florida	56,138
31	Utah	55,999
32	Ohio	55,789
33	Maine	55,480
34	Indiana	55,353
35	Louisiana	55,235
36	Rhode Island	55,140
37	North Carolina	54,748
38	Delaware	54,314
39	Arkansas	54,094
40	Michigan	53,903
41	Oregon	53,455
42	Idaho	53,302
43	Arizona	51,960
44	Georgia	51,643
45	Kentucky	51,428
46	South Carolina	51,320
47	Hawaii	50,923
48	Alabama	50,902
49	New Mexico	50,620
50	West Virginia	49,071
51	Mississippi	47,517

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