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• <br /> County workers, in Hawaii among nation's best paid <br /> Tuesday, January 31st 2017, 1 :44 pm HSTTuesday, January 31st 2017, <br /> 7:56 pm HST <br /> By HNN Staff <br /> HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) <br /> New data released on Tuesday reveals county workers in Hawaii make the <br /> highest average wages in :the nation, compared to employees from <br /> counties in other states. <br /> The Grassroots Institute of Hawaii examined statistics from the U.-S. <br /> Bureau of Economic Analysis, which showed that county workers <br /> across the state's four counties made, on average, roughly $61,365 per <br /> year, <br /> The total was listed .as more than. $12,000 per year higher than the national <br /> average of $48,053 per county employee. <br /> When adjusted for Hawaii's high cost of living, the report says, county <br /> employees in Hawaii are still the sixth-highest paid in the country, which <br /> remains about the national. average, <br /> There are just under 20,000 people in Hawaii who are employed by one of <br /> the state's four counties, the report says. State employees, a group which <br /> numbers close to 75,000, were paid an average wage of $46,319, less than <br /> the national average of $5O,656. <br /> Copyright 2017 HaWaii News Now. All rights reserved. <br />