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Governors Money Report Card — Methodology
This is a re-skin of existing DollarFlourish state rankings. We do not invent jobs, tax, paycheck, migration, fiscal, or energy scores. Party is displayed and can be filtered. Party is not in the formula.
| Input ranking | Weight | Rule |
|---|---|---|
| Jobs | 18 | Existing state franchise. Unavailable values are skipped and remaining weights rescaled. |
| Tax burden | 18 | Existing state franchise. Unavailable values are skipped and remaining weights rescaled. |
| Real paycheck | 18 | Existing state franchise. Unavailable values are skipped and remaining weights rescaled. |
| Migration | 15 | Existing state franchise. Unavailable values are skipped and remaining weights rescaled. |
| Fiscal health | 15 | Existing state franchise. Unavailable values are skipped and remaining weights rescaled. |
| Gas and energy | 16 | Existing state franchise. Unavailable values are skipped and remaining weights rescaled. |
Housing affordability and cost-of-living on this desk are metro franchises, so they are omitted here. Composite = weighted average of available state composites for that abbreviation, then ranked 1…n. Official names come from the sourced officials table.