US County Pay Level Growth

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In summary, among the Nation’s largest counties, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, which includes Boston, led the nation in growth in average weekly wages in the second quarter of 2004, with an over-the-year increase of 11.8 percent. Pierce County, Washington, which includes the city of Tacoma, was second with 9.8 percent growth. The counties with the next highest rates of pay growth were Lee, Florida (in southwestern Florida), Spartanburg, South Carolina (which borders North Carolina), and Rock Island, Illinois (which borders Iowa).In the U.S. overall, average weekly wages were 3.1 percent higher in the second quarter of 2004 than in the second quarter of 2003.