
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, today is Mother’s Day and more than 70 percent of moms with young children working today, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2019’s Best & Worst States for Working Moms as well as accompanying videos.
In order to help ease the burden on “Women Who Work,” particularly moms, WalletHub compared the attractiveness of each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia for a working mother based on 16 key metrics. The data set ranges from median women’s salary to female unemployment rate to day-care quality.
In the WalletHub survey Massachusetts , Rhode Island ,
Connecticut ,Vermont , District of Columbia and New Jersey were the top 6 states.
Best vs. Worst
- New York has the highest day-care quality score, 116, which is five times higher than in Idaho, the lowest at 23.
- Mississippi has the lowest child-care costs as a share of the median women’s salary, 9.55 percent, which is 3.3 times lower than in Nebraska, the highest at 31.58 percent.
- The District of Columbia has the highest ratio of female executives to male executives, 67.07 percent, which is 2.8 times higher than in Utah, the lowest at 24.24 percent.
- Maryland has the lowest share of single-mom families with children younger than 18 in poverty, 25.50 percent, which is 1.9 times lower than in Mississippi, the highest at 49.60 percent.
- Michigan has the highest median annual women’s salary (adjusted for cost of living), $44,397, which is 1.5 times higher than in Hawaii, the lowest at $28,850.