Employee Widening Compensation Advantage in Right to Work States

January 6, 2017

In States With Longstanding Right to Work Laws in 2015, Cost of Living-Adjusted Annual Pay and Benefits Per Private-Sector Employee Were $45,657, or Nearly $1200 More Than the Forced Unionism-State Average (download Fact Sheet) Today roughly 49% of Americans live in one of the 26 states with a Right to Work law on the books…

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Right to Work States Have Superior Job Growth

September 28, 2012

Total full-time and part-time employment by industry (SA25, SA25N) Compensation of employees by industry (SA06, SA06N) On September 25, 2011, the U.S. Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) issued its estimates for total 2011 private-sector, nonfarm employment in the 50 states. The BEA simultaneously issued revised data for overall state personal income and an…

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