New York, California, Alaska among states with highest worker productivity

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Employees are paid for their work and output. But can you truly put a price on productivity? 

An engaged employee has the power to raise an organization’s profits by up to 21%, according to data from Gallup. In an effort to find where in the U.S. employers are seeing the most bang for their buck, business resource platform Upflip analyzed the newest labor productivity data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics to see which states added the most financial value to the economy for every hour worked.

Hours worked: 14,296,359,000
Annual value added: $1,725,176,181,000
Value added per hour worked: $120.67

Hours worked: 5,502,872,000
Annual value added: $589,474,184,000
Value added per hour worked: $107.12

Paola Peralta
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Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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