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With the job market always seeming to be challenging, we are constantly on the lookout for information and tips to help out our readers when comes to employment and their careers.
From what blunders to avoid to job qualifications to knowing when it might be time to move on, we try to seek out and share anything we think might be of use.
Today we have some new job data compiled by Money magazine who put together a very informative interactive map highlightingthe best paying employer headquartered in each of America’s 50 states.
Using figures compiled by the AFL-CIO for companies in the Russell 3000 stock market index, Money came up with the median pay, aka the mid-point for each company’s payroll, and figured out which company in each state pays the best.
As they point out, many of these top-paying employers have rather small staffs — a few dozen employees or fewer — in niche markets like managing real estate or biotechnology, but there are definitely some exceptions as you will see below.
Here’s a sampling of some of the highest-paying companies by state.
• Alabama: Medical Properties Trust, 66 employees, median salary: $241,709
• California: Geron Corporation, 15 employees, median salary: $500,250
• Colorado: Clovis Oncology, 360 employees, median salary: $256,903
• Florida: Xenia Hotels & Resorts, 51 employees, median salary: $228,114
• Idaho: IDACORP, 1,972 employees, median salary: $161,297
• Illinois: Equity Commonwealth, 54 employees, median salary: $256,235
• Indiana: Endocyte, 44 employees, median salary: $233,042
• Kentucky: Humana, 45,900 employees, median salary: $57,385
• Louisiana: Entergy, 13,000 employees, median salary: $124,000
• Maine: WEX, 3,300 employees, median salary: $62,621
• Massachussetts: Infinity Pharmaceuticals, 22 employees, median salary: $495,513
• Minnesota: Allete, 1,972 employees, median salary: $174,181
• Missouri: EPR Properties, 63 employees, median salary: $196,220
• New Hampshire: UNITIL Corporation, 514 employees, median salary: $180,984
• Oklahoma: Laredo Petroleum, 361 employees, median salary: $138,449
• Rhode Island: Textron, 37,000 employees, median salary: $90,025
• South Carolina: Blackbaud, 3,182 employees, median salary: $91,328
• Utah: Lipocine, 14 employees, median salary: $299,612
• Washington: Tableau Software, 3,633 employees, median salary: $199,864
• West Virginia: WesBanco, 1,939 employees, median salary: $73,209
View all of the numbers on Money magazine’s interactive map here.
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