{"id":128057,"date":"2017-08-30T07:54:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-30T12:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=128057"},"modified":"2017-08-30T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2017-08-30T14:38:29","slug":"nd-wages-continue-to-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=128057","title":{"rendered":"North Dakota wages continue to decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-69076\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/calculator2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"115\" height=\"86\" \/>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Wages have declined in North Dakota for the second consecutive year.Total wages decreased 8 percent in 2016 after dropping 2 percent in 2015. The average annual wage also saw a nearly 4 percent drop to nearly $48,900 statewide.<\/p>\n<div id=\"main\">\n<div class=\"column column-double column-last widget single\">\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<p>The state\u2019s oil and gas extraction wages dropped by nearly 3 percent to an average of more than $120,400. Truck transport, petroleum and coal average wages also saw a decrease. The energy industry has the highest average wages in the state despite the drops.<\/p>\n<p>In Burleigh County, the real estate and leasing industry had the biggest drop in average wages, which dropped 25 percent to more than $39,000.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver County saw the highest wage average of any county in the state with more than $71,700.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2014 Wages have declined in North Dakota for the second consecutive year.Total wages decreased 8 percent in 2016 after dropping 2 percent in 2015. The average annual wage also saw a nearly 4 percent drop to nearly $48,900 statewide. The state\u2019s oil and gas extraction wages dropped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":92545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=128057"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":128076,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128057\/revisions\/128076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}