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9 hours ago
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What's the average hourly pay in Vermont? See how your paycheck compares
Vermont residents are in the top half of hourly earners in the country, reveals data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its total private average hourly earnings by state, along with the average weekly earnings and the average number of hours Americans work per week as of April 2025. It showed that Vermont residents do pretty well for themselves. Here's the average hourly salary for Vermont and how it compares to other states. How does your salary compare? On average, Vermonters earn $34.78 per hour, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This figure is not seasonally adjusted. This means that per week, Vermonters earn $1,182.52 on average. Vermonters work 34 hours per week on average, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's the highest working hours of the New England states. New England is home to two of the top 10 earning states in the country, Massachusetts and Connecticut. While Vermont is in the top half of earning states in the country, it's the second lowest in New England. Massachusetts, $42.21 Connecticut, $38.43 Rhode Island, $36.01 New Hampshire, $35.68 Vermont, $34.78 Maine, $32.39 Employees in the nation's capital of Washington, D.C., earn the most money with an average hourly pay of $52.25 per hour. This is over $15 per hour more than what workers in Vermont make. Mississippi lands in last place for earnings per hour: average hourly earnings in this Southern state are just $27.88. Washington, D.C., $52.25 Massachusetts, $42.21 Washington, $41.61 California, $40.69 Colorado, $39.10 Minnesota, $39.04 New York, $38.50 Connecticut, $38.43 Hawaii, $37.84 New Jersey, $37.68 Contributing: Alex Perry This article originally appeared on Burlington Free Press: What's the average hourly pay in VT? How does your paycheck compare? Sign in to access your portfolio
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2 days ago
- Business
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Texans work the most hours per week. See average hourly pay in Texas, how yours compares
Do you make more money than the average Texan? The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its total private average hourly earnings by state, along with the average weekly earnings and the average number of hours Americans work per week. Here are the average hourly and weekly salaries for Texas, average weekly hours, and how these figures compare to those in other states, as of April 2025. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, total private average hourly earnings in Texas are $34.25 as of April. That hourly rate is not seasonally adjusted. The data shows that the average gross weekly earnings are $1,239.85. Extrapolated over 52 weeks, that weekly earnings figure equates to $64,472.20 per year, Texas' average hourly earnings rank in the middle among states, with its average weekly earnings falling in the upper-middle category. Employees in the nation's capital of Washington, D.C., earn the most money with an average hourly pay of $52.25 per hour. This is a full $18 above Texas' average. Mississippi lands in last place as the state that earns the least on average. Its average hourly earnings are just $27.88, which is $6.37 less than Texas'. Washington, D.C.: $52.25 Massachusetts: $42.21 Washington: $41.61 California: $40.69 Colorado: $39.10 Minnesota: $39.04 New York: $38.50 Connecticut: $38.43 Hawaii: $37.84 New Jersey: $37.68 Mississippi: $27.88 New Mexico: $29.13 Louisiana: $29.38 Arkansas: $29.69 West Virginia: $29.90 Kentucky: $30.07 Tennessee: $30.68 Iowa: $30.75 Oklahoma: $30.76 Alabama: $31.08 At 36.2 hours per week, the average Texas employee spends the most time at work compared to those in other states. This is nearly four hours more than the average employee in South Dakota, with the fewest weekly hours. Texas: 36.2 hours Louisiana: 36.0 hours Mississippi: 35.6 hours Alabama: 35.3 hours Oklahoma: 35.2 hours West Virginia: 35.0 hours North Dakota: 34.9 hours Kentucky: 34.8 hours Arkansas: 34.7 hours Arizona: 34.6 hours South Dakota: 32.4 hours Delaware and New York: 32.5 hours Hawaii: 32.6 hours Wisconsin: 32.7 hours Minnesota: 32.9 hours Colorado, Maine and New Hampshire: 33.1 hours Montana: 33.2 hours — The Columbus Dispatch's Alex Perry contributed to this report. This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: What's the average hourly pay in Texas? See how your paycheck compares
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Health
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How this 'generational shift' impacts fitness, wellness industries
Bank of America data shows that Gen Z and millennials are increasingly prioritizing their health. Bank of America Securities leisure analyst Alex Perry joins Asking for a Trend host Josh Lipton to share his top wellness stock picks and discuss the generational shift toward healthy habits. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Asking for a Trend here.
Yahoo
10-05-2025
- Health
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How this 'generational shift' impacts fitness, wellness industries
Bank of America data shows that Gen Z and millennials are increasingly prioritizing their health. Bank of America Securities leisure analyst Alex Perry joins Asking for a Trend host Josh Lipton to share his top wellness stock picks and discuss the generational shift toward healthy habits. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Asking for a Trend here. BFA data showing Gen Z and millennials are increasingly prioritizing their health, leading to some bullish commentary from Bank of America. Let's welcome in now Alex Perry, BFA Securities leisure analyst for more. Alex, we to see you on set. So, uh, what we're seeing is we're seeing a generational shift towards healthier habits, particularly from millennials and Gen Z, which we think, you know, should drive some, uh, some trends with some long-term staying power. So particularly in the data, a couple of things that we've seen are, we see that Gen Z is spending 2.8 times more than older generations, particularly baby boomers, on fitness. So we're How much more, Alex? 2.8 times more than baby boomers on fitness. And even more interestingly, uh, Millennials, which represent the largest spending cohort, uh, for fitness, are spending three times more than baby boomers on, on fitness. So we think that you know When you say fitness, we mean going to the gym, like how we, what we define fitness. Yes, yes. So we define that as as fitness clubs. Um, so think of lifetime planet fitness, uh, traditional sort of brick and mortar fitness is how we would define that. So we're we're increasingly seeing these younger demographics, not only prioritizing fitness, but prioritizing other healthy ways of living as well. So So is that like eating, drinking? That's exactly right. So, uh, really focus on healthy eating, drinking, aging, recovery. So what we're seeing is millennials and Gen Z's are, are drinking, they're drinking less and exercising more. So one of the ways we looked at the data, um, is that we see that spending on non-alcoholic beer and seltzer equivalent is averaging 28 points higher than the alcohol equivalent since 2021. So it's really interesting sort of how they're behaving. They're also doing other things, you know, focused on other wellness modalities. They're focused on healthy aging, healthy recovery. If you look at Google search trends for red light therapy, anti-aging masks, for example, they're up significantly. So red light, more red light therapy, less bars. Is that right? More, more red light therapy, less drinking, less bars, more fitness. Um, and we think this has some real staying power for, for our stock coverage as well. What about Alex, if, if the economy just stumble into a recession, you know, a lot of economists come on the show and tell me the odds of that are going up. That would mean what for some of these trends in terms of gym memberships and organic food and cold plunges. Yeah. No, that's a great question, Josh. So I think that what that implies, if we look at the historical data, we would see that fitness actually is, is relatively recession resilient. So we go back through 2008, 2009, lifetime was actually publicly traded at this time. Uh, a brick and mortar fitness player and same store sales were relatively flattish during this time period, and margins actually expanded. And I think what that tells us is that fitness is a very ingrained consumer behavior. And consumers are less willing to drop fitness versus other pockets of discretionary spend. So we actually think that, you know, the, the fitness players are are recession resilient and maybe you're going to ask about tariffs, which we think that they're, they're a great place for investors to, to avoid tariff related uncertainty. Um, you know, they're A place of tariff relative resilience. Relative resilience. That's right. So, um, there's probably some small fitness equipment sourcing exposure, but no direct tariff exposure for the fitness players. And we think that, you know, it's a very interesting investment characteristic here. Let's, let's give viewers a way to play this. You're talking off camera, top wellness pick lifetime group. Yeah, lifetime. We, we think they fit squarely in the middle of what we view as these, um, younger generations prioritizing healthy ways of living. So they were really quick to identify some of the fastest growing leisure and wellness trends. Um, a great example of this is pickleball. We've seen an absolute surge in the popularity of pickleball. And I think it, lifetime quickly identified this trend and they started rolling out pickleball to majority of their clubs. So over 80% of their clubs now have pickleball, and they're now the largest provider of pickleball in the US. Cold exposure therapy, which we talked a little bit about earlier, they were, they've been quick to sort of be on this trend and they're rolling out cold plunge tubs to a lot of their, their clubs. So we think that, you know, they've identified these trends, they're rolling them out to the clubs, and then you know, that's warranted a, a really premium member, member experience. Have you guys ever thought about the data, how the role of sort of influencers on these trends? Some of the trends you're talking about, I think of like the Andrew Huberman's out there. They talk a lot about these trends. I just wonder what kind of, what kind of role could that be playing here? Yeah, no, it's a great question. I think it absolutely plays a huge role. Um, we've seen increased social media influence on, on our stock coverage. Uh, Tik Tok for instance, one of the, you know, one of the data feeds that we really look at is Tik Tok social media engagement. I think one of the things we find is that increased social media engagement leads to more buzz around different concepts. A great example of this and another wellness pick that we called out is Shark Ninja. They're very good about. Why Shark Ninja? So Shark Ninja has been, if, if we were to think about fitness from a, you know, experience and then from a consumer product standpoint, Shark Ninja really offers, um, an expanding wellness portfolio of, of, of product. The most recent example is the Shark Kyro Glow mask, which is a red light therapy, anti-aging mask. Um, and they are incredibly good about debuting and building buzz around their product on, on social media, particularly on Tik Tok. Alex, thank you so much for your time today. Super interesting trend. Appreciate your time and those picks. That was great. Thanks. Thanks a lot, Josh. Thanks for having me on. 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10-05-2025
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How this 'generational shift' impacts fitness, wellness industries
Bank of America data shows that Gen Z and millennials are increasingly prioritizing their health. Bank of America Securities leisure analyst Alex Perry joins Asking for a Trend host Josh Lipton to share his top wellness stock picks and discuss the generational shift toward healthy habits. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Asking for a Trend here. Error while retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data Error while retrieving data
