WASHINGTON, D.C. (WKYT) – As more people head back to work after the worst of the pandemic, Fayette County outranks Kentucky’s two other biggest counties for year-over-year increases in average weekly wages.
Fayette County’s 9.5 percent was also the 54th highest in the country, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Boone County had a 7.9 percent increase while Jefferson County’s was 6.4 percent.
Propelled by the 9.5 percent increase, the average weekly wage during the first quarter of 2022 was $1,116 in Fayette County.
Among the 355 largest counties in the nation, 348 had over-the-year increases in average weekly wages. In the first quarter of 2022, average weekly wages for the nation increased to $1,374, a 6.7-percent increase over the year.
Peoria, Illinois, had the largest over-the-year percentage increase in average weekly wages (+25.8 percent). San Francisco, Calif., had the largest over-the-year percentage decrease in average weekly wages, with a loss of 9.1 percent
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