{
  "alt": "County map of the United States shaded by average annual pay per job at the workplace in 2023 on a teal scale. A few metropolitan counties are at the high end of the key and most counties are near the low end. Counties with no value are gray, and there are {fact:n_nopay}.",
  "caption": "Counties toward the high end of the key are mostly metropolitan counties, and most counties sit toward the low end, with a median of {fact:pay_median} and a fifth to ninety-fifth percentile range of {fact:pay_p5} to {fact:pay_p95}. The map plots pay for the jobs located in each county, not the earnings of the people who live there; gray counties have no value.",
  "data": [],
  "id": "workplace_pay_map",
  "notes": [
    "Pay is total wages divided by average employment for jobs covered by state unemployment insurance. It mixes full-time and part-time jobs, includes bonuses, and leaves out the self-employed and some farm and domestic workers.",
    "Of the {fact:n_nopay} gray counties, one has totals withheld by the Bureau to protect an employer's confidentiality and one is not in the file. A withheld cell is missing, never zero.",
    "QCEW codes Connecticut by its legacy counties through 2023, the counties drawn here. Puerto Rico is not drawn. Dollars are current, so this map compares counties within 2023 and not across years.",
    "Totals are full counts from employer reports, so they carry no sampling interval."
  ],
  "source": "Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, county annual averages, 2023; full counts of covered payroll",
  "spec": {
    "fips": "fips",
    "legendLabel": "Average annual pay per job at the workplace, 2023 (current dollars)",
    "payload": "workplace_pay_map.json",
    "scale": {
      "domain": [
        39000,
        72000
      ],
      "palette": "seq",
      "type": "sequential"
    },
    "tooltipKeys": [
      "jobs"
    ],
    "tooltipLabels": {
      "jobs": "Jobs located in the county"
    },
    "value": "pay",
    "valueFormat": {
      "digits": 0,
      "prefix": "$",
      "thousands": true
    }
  },
  "subtitle": "Average annual pay per job, current dollars, for jobs located in each county and covered by unemployment insurance, 2023, jobs at the workplace",
  "title": "Jobs located in metropolitan counties paid {fact:pay_metro} a year on average in 2023, against {fact:pay_small} in nonmetropolitan counties with smaller towns or none",
  "type": "county-map",
  "width": "full"
}