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Rhode
Island’s private sector employed 417,707 workers in 2006 and paid over
$16.1 billion in wages. Private sector employees earned an average
annual wage of $38,732 in 2006, a 4.5 percent (+$1,668) increase from
the 2005 average of $37,064. The 2006 average annual wage in the Ocean
State was 8.7 percent (-$3,682) less than the national average of
$42,414 and ranked as the fourth highest wage in New England. At
$55,981, Connecticut reported the highest average annual private sector
wage in the northeast, more than $13,500 higher than the United States
average. Massachusetts workers earned an average of $52,837, followed by
New Hampshire, whose average annual wage of $43,028 was higher than the
rest of the nation. Private industry in Vermont ($34,955) and Maine
($33,192) paid the lowest average annual wages in New England. The
statewide private sector wages in Rhode Island, Vermont, and Maine were
all below the national average in 2006.
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