Paychecks are higher in the Washington, D.C., area than anywhere else in the East. The typical worker in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria metropolitan division earned $60,090 in 2009, the latest year for which official figures are available. That was $1,760 above the runner-up, Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Mass.
On Numbers used U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data to break down the pay levels for 772 occupations in 77 Eastern metropolitan areas and divisions. (A division is a subset of a major metro area.)
The following list shows the 10 Eastern metro divisions with the highest annual average pay for all occupations:
1. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, D.C.-Va.-Md.-W.Va., $60,090
2. Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, Mass., $58,330
3. Framingham, Mass., $57,660
4. Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Conn., $57,340
5. Bethesda-Frederick-Gaithersburg, Md., $56,900
6. New York-White Plains-Wayne, N.Y.-N.J., $56,250
7. Trenton-Ewing, N.J., $55,090
8. Lowell-Billerica-Chelmsford, Mass.-N.H., $54,110
9. Newark-Union, N.J.-Pa., $52,760
10.Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, Conn., $51,520
Safety Technologies plans Virginia plant
Safety Technologies Inc. chose Virginia over Alabama, Maryland, New Mexico and Pennsylvania for an expansion that will add 61 jobs.
The company, which manufactures explosion suppression systems for fuel storage systems, will add 15 jobs at its Reston headquarters and build a manufacturing plant in Lunenburg County, where it will create 46 jobs.
Safety Technologies received state incentives that include $160,000 from Virginia’s Tobacco Region Opportunity Funds. Lunenburg County will receive a $100,000 state grant to help with the project.
Wine-shipping, jobless benefits bills signed into law in Maryland
Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley signed into law Tuesday bills that extend jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed, permit shipping of wine and protect utility customers from long-term power outages.
The bills were among many that drew the attention of business advocates during the Maryland General Assembly’s session earlier this year.
The wine-shipping bill, for example, had been pressed for years. The ultimate version that passed the legislature gives wineries, but not wine retailers, the ability to mail wine.
