Headlight Data today released its updated Quarterly Economic Scorecard, which shows performance by quarter for counties, metros, and states. Trend data shows performance over the last ten years. Headlight analyzes data from the BLS’ Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). This dataset lags the monthly...
Headlight Data today released its updated Annual Economic Scorecard, which shows performance by year for counties, metros, and states. Trend data shows performance over the last ten years. Headlight analyzes data from the BLS’ Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). This dataset lags the monthly...
Headlight Data today released an updated version of our COVID-19 Scorecard for States and the US, which now includes number of tests, hospitalizations, in-ICU, and On-Ventilator if states report this data. Our tableau also allows users to see comparisons by state for per capita...
Recently released data from the Internal Revenue Service illuminates which US states have the highest state-to-state net household migration. Net household migration is total in-migrants minus out-migrants using the IRS-reported number of tax returns as a proxy for households. Texas had the most household net relocations....
Wage growth inequality can be defined as the difference between the wage growth for two different levels of wage earners. Workers are split between “High Wage” earners and “Low Wage” earners. High Wage earners are those in the right half of the chart below and have...
As first described in a previous article for large metros, wage performance can be examined at the median wage level and also across the distribution of wages. Since 2005, Ultra-High Wage Earners in the U.S. enjoyed the fastest growing wages (+5.9% at the 90th percentile)...
Recently released data from the Internal Revenue Service shows that foreign taxpayer net migration (total in-migrants minus out-migrants) is the highest for Texas, which gained 1,700 households in 2013 from foreign locations. Virginia attracted 1,200 net new foreign households, followed by Colorado (400). “Households” is a...
This map shows migration trends between states from 2012-2013 based on IRS tax return data. Migration can be measured in terms of total returns, total exemptions, and total gross income. Migration flows are shown as total in-migration, total out-migration, and total net migration (the difference...
Recently released data from the Internal Revenue Service shows that state-to-state net migration (total in-migrants minus out-migrants) of Total Gross Income is the highest for Florida, which gained a net of $8.2 billion in 2013 from new taxpayers relocating from within the US. Texas attracted...
Recently released data from the Internal Revenue Service shows that state-to-state net migration (total in-migrants minus out-migrants) is the highest for Texas, which gained 70,500 households in 2013 from within the US. Texas gained 42,000 more returns than Florida in second place. “Households” is a proxy...
