{"id":5636,"date":"2015-07-29T05:28:39","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T09:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2015-07-28T22:37:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T02:37:42","slug":"study-ocean-county-has-n-j-s-second-lowest-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2015\/07\/study-ocean-county-has-n-j-s-second-lowest-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Ocean County Has N.J.’s Second-Lowest Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Homes being rebuilt in the Normandy Beach section of Brick Township. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

Workers in Ocean County earn the second-lowest wages in the state, with only Cape May County wage-earners taking home less per week.<\/p>\n

The wage data was compiled by NJ Spotlight<\/a>, a website that focuses on New Jersey public policy issues. The study by the site revealed that the average worker in Ocean County earned an average of $845 per week during the fourth quarter of 2014, the second-lowest to Cape May County\u2019s $742.<\/p>\n

In addition to the fact that they are faced with the nation\u2019s highest property tax burden in New Jersey combined with Shore real estate prices buttressed in desirable areas by part-time residents purchasing summer homes, the county\u2019s workers would face issues just about anywhere, the study showed. Ocean County was one of five counties in the state where a wage-earner took home less than the national average of $1,035.<\/p>\n

The state\u2019s highest-earning county was Somerset, where the average working resident\u2019s paycheck was $1,543.<\/p>\n

The study showed that there were 157,600 jobs in Ocean County, up 2 percent from the previous year. Overall, workers in neighboring counties tended to earn more \u2013 $1,053 per week in Monmouth County and $1,060 in Burlington County and $872 in Atlantic County, where wages have declined with the turndown of the Atlantic City casino industry.<\/p>\n

The data was based on numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The full NJ Spotlight report can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Workers in Ocean County earn the second-lowest wages in the state, with only Cape May County wage-earners taking home less per week. The wage data was compiled by NJ Spotlight, a website that focuses on New Jersey public policy issues. The study by the site revealed that the average worker in Ocean County earned an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[24,1592,1551],"class_list":["post-5636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocean-county","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-ocean-county","tag-wages"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/brick_rebuild.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-1sU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}