Description: Pay on an average job compared with the cost of living
Additional notes:
The metric is computed by dividing the average wage paid by jobs in a given community by the cost of basic expenses for a family of three (one adult and two children) in that community (as calculated by researchers at MIT). Values greater than 1 indicate that the average job pays more than the cost of living, and values less than 1 suggest the average job pays less.
Years Available: 2014, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023
Variable type: number_decimal_hundreths
Files: 11_mobility-metrics_county_longitudinal.csv
19_mobility-metrics_county_industry_longitudinal.csv