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National estimates are published estimates, not an unweighted average of states.","Statewide survey wages are not take-home pay, benefits, overtime or a guaranteed offer.","Projected openings are not live vacancies, and employment/concentration are not vacancies.","Pay buying-power adjustment combines May2025 wages with BEA2024 price levels; it is a comparison using the latest available vintages, not a same-year real-wage statistic.","Regional Price Parities (RPPs) measure the differences in price levels across states relative to the national average (US = 100) for each individual year. A falling RPP indicates that a state became relatively less expensive compared to the nation, not that absolute prices decreased.","Changes in RPP across years must never be labeled or interpreted as general price inflation.","For actual cumulative price-growth comparison across years, use the Implicit Regional Price Deflator (IRPD, base 2017 = 100) provided in priceIndex alongside the consistent US PCE deflator history (usValue).","Coverage: 50 states plus District of Columbia (51 geographies), with 17 consecutive years of observations (2008-2024). All observations are published without suppression in this official release.","Spot checks: 2024 California RPP all-items is 110.720 (rounds to 110.7); 2024 Arkansas RPP all-items is 86.937 (rounds to 86.9); 2024 US reference RPP all-items is 100.000.","Policy flags and wages are source snapshots as of July 1, 2026, with varying coverage and exemptions.","No employer-level worker-treatment rating is claimed. Source rank remains among 52 jurisdictions; it is not recalculated after excluding Puerto Rico."]}