Kansans’ pay increase among the nation’s worst

Kansas ranked 49th out of 50 states and the District of Columbia in real personal income growth per person in 2014.

The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis has just figured price inflation for each state. Once that inflation is factored in, Kansans saw their real personal income rise by an average of $111 in 2014 from the year earlier, a growth of 0.2 percent.

The U.S. average was 2.2 percent per person, or $897. The slowest-growing states for income that year were in the Great Plains and Midwest.

Personal income includes wages, benefits, rents, dividends, interest and government payments such as Social Security and Medicaid. It doesn’t include profits from businesses.

This story was originally published July 7, 2016 at 10:44 AM with the headline "Kansans’ pay increase among the nation’s worst."