Richland Boosts Benton County’s Average Salary
by Matt McGee on August 7th, 2008. Filed under: Richland News.Interesting article in the Herald today about salaries in Benton County. According to the article, workers in Benton County have the third highest average weekly wage in Washington in 2007.
The county’s average weekly salary was $842, up 3.9 percent over 2006. By comparison, Franklin County workers earned an average of $593 in 2007, a 5.5% rise from 2006. As you’d expect, Hanford salaries are one of the main reasons for Benton County wages to be so high:
Jobs in professional, scientific and technical services, which would include employment at Hanford and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and utility companies, account for the bulk of the high wages in Benton County, said Dean Schau, state regional labor economist for the State Employment Security Department.
August 8th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
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