What's the Wealthiest State in the U.S.?

Umm...its not a state.

But your still right :D
resident Obama's call last year for "shared sacrifice" doesn't extend to federal employees, at least based on the details of his administration's 2010 budget released this week.

At a time when the official unemployment rate is nearing double digits, and 6.35 million people are receiving unemployment benefits, the U.S. government is on a hiring binge.

Executive branch employment — 1.98 million in 2009, excluding the Postal Service and the Defense Department — is set to increase by 15.6 percent for the 2010 fiscal year. Most of that is thanks to the Census Bureau hiring 102,000 temporary workers, but not counting them still yields a net increase of 2 percent in one year.

There's little belt-tightening in evidence in Washington, D.C.: Counting benefits, the average pay per federal worker will leap from $72,800 in 2008 to $75,419 next year.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/05/12/business/econwatch/entry5007862.shtml
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Yep we are all suckers
 
I've seen a few of these surveys over the years and think they are a bit misleading. While median wage income is high in the DC area due to the large numbers of salaried professionals that work for the government and beltway bandit companies I find it hard to believe that the area is "wealthier" than the Upper East Side of Manhattan, Palm Beach, and Beverly Hills. The people in those areas have never had a "salary" in their lives.
 
it probably depends on how you look at it. If you look at wealthiest towns as avg. income and property values, the #1 town in an article a couple of years ago was on LI. Forget the name of it, between 5 towns and JFK. CT only state to have 3 in the top 10 I think, maybe its them to be wealthiest. But its a moving target, because of the Wall St and real estate crash there, they were all NYC commuter towns. DC wow! Do they avg. in all the zero income people in ghetto? hard to believe Marion Barry, crackhead, was in charge of the wealthiest state/district.
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highest-income_places_in_the_United_States
This is a list of the 99 richest places in the United States, regardless of population or number of households.

Ranking of states with places in the top 99, from most to least: New York 16, California 15, Florida 13, Texas 6, Illinois 5, Missouri 5, Pennsylvania 4, Michigan 3, Minnesota 3, New Jersey 3, Wisconsin 3, Delaware 2, Indiana 2, Kansas 2, Kentucky 2, Maryland 2, North Carolina 2, Ohio 2, Washington 2, Alaska 1, Arizona 1, Colorado 1, Connecticut 1, Louisiana 1, Massachusetts 1, Tennessee 1. Twenty-four states do not have any places in the top 99.
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Rank  	Place  	Per Capita Income Population  	No. of
Households  
1	Jupiter Island, Florida	$200,087	620	285
2	Baker, Missouri	$182,000	5	2
3	Rex, North Carolina	$148,073	55	17
4	Golf, Florida	$144,956	230	119
5	Hunting Valley, Ohio	$144,281	735	284
6	Manalapan, Florida	$143,729	321	167
7	Indian Creek, Florida**	$137,382	33	14
8	Orchid, Florida	$135,870	140	69
9	Mockingbird Valley, Kentucky	$134,745	190	74
10	Gulf Stream, Florida	$133,651	716	340
 
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Umm...its not a state.

But your still right :D
Yep we are all suckers
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If any of you numbnuts would have bothered to read even the first two paragraphs of the article, you would have noted that Maryland is the wealthiest state, due to federal salaries, etc.

Make the attempt sometime to get off twitter and read more than 140 words at a time.

You might even learn something.

While other states may have far wealthier individuals, the area around D.C., which includes Maryland, is crammed with thousands of federal employees on AVERAGE making very high and stable incomes.

You may entertain fantasies of a luxurious retirement from trading, but the cubicle-dwelling government slave doing 35 hours a week at a GS 11 or 12 level working 30 years for the man will have you beat, no problem.
 
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