Rent takes more than 30% of graduate pay in 13 of 51 states (2026)
Setting each state's median two-bedroom rent against what its own graduates earn ten years on, the heaviest is Hawaii at 48.4%; the lightest is Illinois at 17.4%. 13 of 51 states sit above the 30% line. Civic Forecast calculation from Department of Education College Scorecard median earnings and HUD Fair Market Rents (2027), gross of tax.
Induced by API Automations for Civic Forecast from federal open data. Each finding names the datasets it was computed from. How this is calculated.