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Where Is It Cheapest to Manufacture?

Name: MFG Calcs State Cost-to-Manufacture Index
Creator: MFG Calcs
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

The State Cost-to-Manufacture Index: each U.S. state against a national average of 100, blending its manufacturing wage index and industrial electricity price.

What this Signal shows

Rank U.S. states by what it costs to manufacture there, blending manufacturing wages and industrial electricity.

Cadence, source and downloads

Cadence: Refreshed automatically whenever the wage and electricity data update.
An illustrative composite of two live cost factors (BLS wages, EIA industrial electricity), not a full site-selection model (excludes taxes, land, incentives). Full board at /signals/state-cost-index.
Free to download as All states (CSV), Full board (JSON), Methodology (JSON) under CC BY 4.0.

Last reviewed 2026-10-01.