February 3, 2000 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Travis County, Texas had biggest pay increase in 1998
Of the Nation's largest
counties, Travis County, Texas, led in growth in average annual
pay with an increase of 15.5 percent from 1997 to 1998.
[Chart data—TXT]
Boulder County, Colorado, was second in pay growth at 13.9 percent,
followed by the counties of Fairfax, Virginia (11.4 percent), King,
Washington (10.7 percent), and Denton, Texas (9.8 percent).
Hamilton County, Tennessee, had the slowest rate of positive growth
(1.4 percent) of the largest counties. Two counties experienced
declines in average annual pay in 1998: Ingham, Michigan (-0.4 percent),
and Trumbull, Ohio (-0.1 percent).
The BLS Covered
Employment and Wages program
produced these data. Pay data presented here are for all workers covered
by State and Federal unemployment insurance programs. Find more
information on pay in large counties in 1998 in "Employment
and Average Annual Pay for Large Counties, 1998,"
news release USDL 00-01. The largest counties are defined as those with
covered employment levels of 75,000 or more in 1998.
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