Rent takes more than 30% of full-time pay in 3 of 51 states (August 2026)
Comparing each state's own average wage with its own median two-bedroom rent, the heaviest burden is Hawaii at 32.9% of a full-time paycheck; the lightest is Illinois at 15%. Civic Forecast calculation from Bureau of Labor Statistics state average hourly earnings and HUD Fair Market Rents (2027), against a 2,080-hour work year. Figures are 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.