U.S. States Ranked by Personal Income per Capita

Where is personal income per resident highest? This table orders all 50 states by dollars per resident, using 2025 observations.

Personal income per resident in 2025

Connecticut ranks first at 102,307. The last-ranked state is Mississippi, at 54,433. Equal displayed values share competition rank; alphabetical order within a tie does not establish a lead. These figures use the same period and definition.

Personal income includes earnings, property income and transfers. Per capita is an average across residents, not the median wage or household income. The median of the 50 state observations is 72,611; this unweighted state median is not the national rate or total. Annual estimates remain revisable; source publication dates appear in the methodology below.

Complete ranking and historical periods

50 states · 2025 · Dollars per resident. Highest values first; ties share a rank.

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U.S. States Ranked by Personal Income per Capita · 2025 · Dollars per resident
Rank	State	Value	Rank one year earlier
1	Connecticut	102,307	1
2	Massachusetts	98,700	2
3	New York	91,504	4
4	Wyoming	91,109	3
5	California	90,957	5
6	New Jersey	89,720	6
7	Washington	88,944	7
8	New Hampshire	88,145	8
9	Colorado	86,342	9
10	Maryland	82,387	10
11	Virginia	80,903	11
12	Alaska	80,510	12
13	South Dakota	78,999	16
14	Illinois	78,987	13
15	Florida	78,345	15
16	Minnesota	78,197	14
17	North Dakota	77,438	17
18	Hawaii	76,966	21
19	Nebraska	76,055	18
20	Vermont	75,723	19
21	Pennsylvania	75,370	22
22	Rhode Island	75,233	20
23	Nevada	73,767	23
24	Oregon	73,283	24
25	Texas	73,156	25
26	Montana	72,066	26
27	Maine	71,742	27
28	Wisconsin	71,219	28
29	Utah	70,323	29
30	Missouri	69,836	30
31	Tennessee	69,274	31
32	Kansas	69,149	32
33	Delaware	68,630	34
34	Arizona	68,373	33
35	North Carolina	68,274	35
36	Ohio	67,584	37
37	Iowa	67,321	36
38	Michigan	67,245	38
39	Indiana	66,455	39
40	Oklahoma	66,055	40
41	Georgia	65,111	41
42	Idaho	64,200	42
43	Louisiana	64,103	43
44	South Carolina	63,435	44
45	New Mexico	62,089	46
46	Arkansas	61,697	45
47	Kentucky	60,835	47
48	Alabama	59,754	48
49	West Virginia	58,217	49
50	Mississippi	54,433	50

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District of Columbia: 119,772 dollars per resident, shown separately and excluded from ranks.

Changing the period updates the table and export. The introductory analysis above concerns 2025. All historical choices use the same acquired revised history.

What changed in the ranking?

Connecticut occupies position 1 in 2025 and occupied position 1 in 2024 within this acquired history. Compare the underlying levels before interpreting movement: other states’ changes can alter a rank even when a state’s own value barely changes. A change in rank is not itself a growth rate, and it cannot establish a policy cause.

The income account extends beyond wages

Personal income brings together several flows received by persons, including labor-related earnings, income from property and current transfers. It is measured before personal current taxes. A state with high average personal income can therefore reflect investment income and transfers as well as wages and salaries.

Per-capita personal income divides that aggregate by the resident population, including residents who do not work. It is not average pay per employee. Wage measures have different populations and may exclude benefits; household income groups people into households instead of using all residents as the denominator.

An average cannot describe the typical household

A small share of very high incomes can increase the mean without an equivalent change in the middle of the distribution. The rank therefore describes the aggregate account per person, not what a randomly selected household is likely to receive. A median household-income ranking would require a separately validated household survey and must not reuse this column under a different title.

Income received by residents is also distinct from output produced by workplaces in a state. Commuters and cross-border income flows can affect the relationship. Reading GDP and personal income together is useful because they describe different sides of regional economic activity.

Pair income with the price level in the same year

This ranking is nominal. Higher income does not automatically imply proportionately greater purchasing power when prices also differ. The regional price-parity ranking provides a companion measure, but its latest available year in this acquisition is 2024 rather than 2025.

To make a matched-year price-adjusted comparison, select 2024 income and 2024 price parities. Do not quietly adjust 2025 income with 2024 prices and present it as a current official purchasing-power estimate. The price comparison calculator keeps its two geographic inputs in the same year.

Sources, formula and ranking methodology

Measure: BEA SAINC1, line 3. Method: Published BEA per-capita personal income: personal income divided by resident population. The display and rank use 0 decimal places. Equal values receive competition rank; missing values are omitted from the ranked universe and reported in the table status. Filtering preserves national ranks.

Source file publication: September 30, 2026. Site acquisition: September 30, 2026. The annual GDP/income files contain 2025 observations; the price-parity file contains 2024 observations; labor series contain August 2026. These dates must not be relabeled as one current-month dashboard. Revised estimates in this acquisition are distinct from a historical release-vintage archive.

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