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

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.

"While it can be fairly easy to work out which states are adding the most value to the economy, measuring this against the hours worked is where it gets interesting," Upflip shared in the study's  release. "When it comes to the value added per hour worked statistic, the U.S. average sits at $79.48, and around half of all 50 states sit below this."

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New York was found to be the most productive state statistically, with a total of 14,296,359,000 hours worked in 2022 and a value-add of $1,725,176,181,000, which refers to the amount of additional financial gain brought in by a productive workforce. This also means that for every hour worked, employees in New York were churning out $120.67 worth of work. Washington took the second spot with a value-added output of $107.12, with Delaware close behind at $104.09. 

See which seven other states made Upflip's list of most productive locations in the U.S.: