Energy-producing and tourism-dependent states took the biggest hits in worker productivity last year: Alaska was down 7.1% to $99.80 in goods and services produced per hour’s work; Louisiana, Nevada, Hawaii and North Dakota also had large declines.
Service technicians work to install the foundation for a transmission tower at the CenterPoint Energy power plant on June 10, 2022, in Houston, Texas.
Lower productivity raises the cost of goods, slowing the economy and threatening wages. That hurts residents’ quality of life and the profits that feed tax coffers. Several factors could be at play, economists say. A labor shortage has brought more new and untrained people to work, and the post-pandemic resurgence of service and hospitality jobs has added more low-wage jobs back to the mix.
The only sizable increase in productivity was in Idaho, which saw an influx of tech workers moving from California and Washington state. Idaho, which was up 4% to $65.51, in 2021 had the lowest labor productivity except for Mississippi, but in 2022 it surpassed Arkansas, Maine, Montana and South Carolina.
“The 2022 state numbers don’t fundamentally change our story,” Robboy said in a statement. “Some of our higher growth states like California declined more rapidly in 2022. But over the longer period since 2007 the only real change is Texas drops below the average and out of our leading group of states.”
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