A new report from WalletHub highlighted the best and worst U.S. states to find a job.

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DAVE BRIGGS: OK, looking for a job, speaking of, WalletHub has a new ranking of the best and worst states to find a job. The company looking at factors like job satisfaction, median income, and commute time to determine the rankings. Here are the results. The top five best include Minnesota, Colorado, New Hampshire, Vermont, and coming in at number one, Washington State. Now the worst states to find a job include Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kentucky. Boy, the Southeast always appears bottom five here. And the 50th, or worst, is West Virginia, Seana.

SEANA SMITH: And now taking a deeper dive into some of those individual factors that contribute to the rankings, WalletHub looking at states with the highest opportunity for employment growth. Those states are California, Connecticut, Illinois, Vermont, and Florida. States with the highest monthly average starting salary include Indiana, Washington, Texas, New York, and Virginia.

And this one, especially important for you, Dave, and for me-- I don't have as long of a commute, though-- time spent commuting. WalletHub finding that states with the longest commutes are California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland, and New York. Your state, Dave. You have a long commute. It's not on there, though.

DAVE BRIGGS: Well, listen, I would wager-- and I would put any amount of money on this that my county, Fairfield County, Connecticut, is number one in the country. I guarantee you that. But in terms of the state, there's not a lot of commuters because Hartford is the biggest city. But on average, my world commutes about an hour and a half to two hours each way, as I do, 20 hours a week.

So, come on. Tell me no one commutes more than Fairfield County, Connecticut. But regionally, I think this is interesting because Vermont and New Hampshire so high on that list. And again, I pointed this out. The Southeast just continues to lag in job creation and economic development, and it would be nice to see something done about that.

SEANA SMITH: Which is interesting because comparing that to the discussion that we had yesterday, just in terms of where people are looking to move, a lot of them are looking to move to the Southeast, just because--

DAVE BRIGGS: That's a good point.

SEANA SMITH: --the cost of living is so much cheaper. So you wonder how people are able to do that if there simply is not nearly as many jobs or opportunities, at least from the findings of this study, when you compare that to some of the other states across the country.

DAVE BRIGGS: Of course, most of those people looking to move to that region moving to Florida, which continues to perform rather well economically and job creation as well, in part by their tax environment.

SEANA SMITH: And then you also wonder how remote work could potentially factor into this, although more and more people heading back to the office, so not as common as it's been over the last two years.