{"id":55669,"date":"2014-10-01T10:23:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T15:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=55669"},"modified":"2014-10-01T10:23:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T15:23:21","slug":"nd-median-income-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=55669","title":{"rendered":"ND median income rises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cash-register-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-751\" alt=\"cash-register-2THUMB\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cash-register-2.jpeg\" width=\"237\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cash-register-2.jpeg 237w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cash-register-2-150x120.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/cash-register-2-217x175.jpeg 217w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota\u2019s unprecedented oil bonanza has boosted the state\u2019s median household income to record levels.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But state demographer Kevin Iverson says the male-dominated energy industry also is widening the wage gap between men and women.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 U.S. Census data show the median earnings of North Dakota men who worked full-time, year-round climbed to $49,231 in 2013. That\u2019s about $3,000 more than in 2012.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The median earnings for North Dakota women increased only about $100 during that time to $34,549.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Data show North Dakota\u2019s median household income rose to $55,759 last year, up from $54,647 in 2012.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Iverson says workers in North Dakota\u2019s oil and natural gas industry earned an average salary of more than $111,000 last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota\u2019s unprecedented oil bonanza has boosted the state\u2019s median household income to record levels. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 But state demographer Kevin Iverson says the male-dominated energy industry also is widening the wage gap between men and women. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 U.S. Census data show the median earnings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55669"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55679,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55669\/revisions\/55679"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}