Posted on 06/25/2017 9:12:32 AM PDT by Hojczyk
All of these financial factors are especially important if you are thinking of moving to another state, or finding a way to jump-start your career. Are things likely to be tougher or easier if you relocate? To help you look before you leap, MoneyRates.com has assembled a list of the best and worst states to make a living.
This list is based on the following factors:
Cost of Living Workplace safety State tax burdens Median wages Unemployment rates
Based on a combination of the above five factors, these are the best and worst states to make a living in 2017:
Best
1. Washington
2. Minnesota
3. Illinois
4. Texas
5. Colorado
Worst
1. Hawaii
2. California
3. Montana
4. West Virginia
5. Vermont
(Excerpt) Read more at money-rates.com ...
That number one would be Washington, DC... Yes..???
D.C. is not a state.
Illinois about to go junk bond...
Came to California with a good work ethic in 1988 and 5 years in my trade, spent the last 30 years here, bought a house, sold a home, 3-4 years left to work and head back to Texas with a decent grub stake.
California can be good but you MUST bring a skill.
Bad methodology + clickbait = waste of everyone’s time.
California real estate is a great investment - actually right now the whole west coast is going crazy. I’ve researched all over and CA coast is still looking good since I’m sick of the northwest rain.
In socialist demoncrap states the best?? BS.
Your screen name is appropriate.
NW about where?
South Carolina Ping 
#1 - United States Of America !
Jolla - what is the skill with which you’ve been so successful? Curious ... thanks!
I am very surprised that the Triangle area of NC is not on the list.
Yep these sorts of lists are click bait and almost useless, relating to someone who wants to relocate for job opportunities.
Relocating for work will depend on your job skills, experience, and jobs of interest to you.
For example, a friend of the family lives in the Boston area. He does some high tech computer work; not sure of his specialties. But he had once explained to me that jobs like his are not found in most places. He said he could never move to Birmingham and find work in his field. I think he mentioned that because a girlfriend at the time was from Alabama. But just to say, a list such as this one is useless to him because of his specialized job.
I’m sure that the oil boom in North Dakota is drawing oil industry professionals, who would not find work in South Carolina in their job specialty.
Engineers whose work specializes in the auto industry may well find more job opportunities in the Detroit offices of car companies, than they will find in Shreveport.
Or maybe I’m looking at this all wrong. But if you have a professional career, as opposed to someone working in a “hired help” job somewhere, you will not be able to just relocate to some ideal spot featured on a list like this, because your criteria for finding a place to live will be very different that the criteria they use to come up with a click bait article.
I’m totally fine with people who are not from here thinking that.
A lot of others are click bait and I don't play their games. I can live with out knowing what are "the top 50 states for getting parking tickets."
Insurance, basic property and liability for small to medium size business, never liked sells, pushing the paperwork is fine with me.
Not at all sexy and no one is going into it, I would highly recommend it, do office work for a couple of years (after school 3 hours a day), then get into insurance. At 20 you would have 5 years of business exp on your resume and get a job any where.
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