Top 10: Which States Lost the Most Money (AGI)?
From the 2011 – 2012 tax filing data as provided by the IRS, all the way through the 2021 – 2022 tax filing data as provided by the IRS, the states below had the biggest losses in terms of the Aggregated Gross Income (AGI) tied to their net domestic migrants. This means that when people left these states, they took the largest amounts of personal income, which can have a myriad of impacts on these states.
| Number | State | Money (Personal Income) Lost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | $-120,948,247,000 |
| 2 | California | $-114,367,257,000 |
| 3 | Illinois | $-69,471,641,000 |
| 4 | New Jersey | $-33,553,506,000 |
| 5 | Massachusetts | $-23,505,721,000 |
| 6 | Maryland | $-19,223,972,000 |
| 7 | Pennsylvania | $-18,691,682,000 |
| 8 | Ohio | $-16,915,909,000 |
| 9 | Virginia | $-14,965,885,000 |
| 10 | Connecticut | $-13,083,084,000 |