On average, Louisiana workers pay the largest share of their income toward their portion of health insurance premiums for employer-based coverage, while workers in Hawaii pay the smallest, according to an AHIP analysis of Commonwealth Fund data published in July.
States ranked by average individual health insurance premium as share of workers’ median income:
- Louisiana: 6.1%
- Mississippi: 5.8%
- Oklahoma: 5.1%
- Alabama: 4.8%
- Kentucky: 4.8%
- Arkansas: 4.7%
- Pennsylvania: 4.6%
- South Carolina: 4.6%
- North Carolina: 4.5%
- Alaska: 4.4%
- Wyoming: 4.4%
- Delaware: 4.3%
- Michigan: 4.3%
- Ohio: 4.3%
- South Dakota: 4.3%
- West Virginia: 4.3%
- California: 4.2%
- Missouri: 4.2%
- New Mexico: 4.2%
- Wisconsin: 4.2%
- Florida: 4.1%
- Iowa: 4.1%
- Kansas: 4.1%
- Indiana: 4.0%
- Minnesota: 4.0%
- Connecticut: 3.9%
- Illinois: 3.9%
- New York: 3.9%
- Vermont: 3.9%
- Virginia: 3.9%
- Colorado: 3.8%
- Idaho: 3.8%
- Maryland: 3.8%
- Tennessee: 3.8%
- Texas: 3.8%
- Massachusetts: 3.7%
- New Hampshire: 3.7%
- New Jersey: 3.7%
- Rhode Island: 3.7%
- Nebraska: 3.6%
- Georgia: 3.5%
- North Dakota: 3.5%
- Utah: 3.5%
- Maine: 3.4%
- Arizona: 3.3%
- Nevada: 3.2%
- Montana: 2.9%
- Oregon: 2.9%
- Washington: 2.9%
- Washington, D.C.: 2.6%
- Hawaii: 1.7%
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