2000 vs. 2015 Industry Earnings Growth and Change

Nebraska Real Industry Earnings Growth by County

2000 vs. 2015, Net Percent Change

Loup County 2000 vs. 2015

Net Percent Change = 1,349.61%

Rank = #1

Nemaha County 2000 vs. 2015

Net Percent Change = -3.95%

Rank = #93

Webster County 2000 vs. 2015

Net Percent Change = 126.42%

Rank = #22

With a spotlight on Webster County, the chart above displays the distribution of the net percent change of real (inflation adjusted) industry earnings across Nebraska's 93 counties over the period 2000-2015.

Those counties whose real industry earnings growth registered above the statewide average over this period realized an increase in their statewide share of real industry earnings. Likewise, those counties whose real industry earnings growth registered below the statewide average experienced a decline in their relative share of real industry earnings statewide.

Statewide Snippets:

Over 2000-2015 real industry earnings grew in ninety-two Nebraska counties while declining in one.
Real industry earnings growth in sixty-three counties outpaced the statewide average (44.69%), while growth in thirty counties trailed.
At the extremes of the distribution, Loup County posted the highest growth of real industry earnings (1,349.61%), while Nemaha County placed last by logging a -3.95% decline.
The spread in real industry earnings growth between the highest (Loup County, 1,349.61%) and lowest (Nemaha County, -3.95%) over 2000-2015 equated to 1,353.55% ( = 1,349.61% − -3.95%).
Real industry earnings growth statewide is but a weighted metric that stems from each county's share of real industry earnings statewide. On this point, as the largest county in Nebraska, Douglas County's net real industry earnings growth over 2000-2015 of $7,903,878K made up 34.78% of the total net growth statewide ($22,725,155K):

Douglas County: Percent Share of Nebraska's
Real Industry Earnings Growth, 2000-2015:

34.78% = ($7,903,878K / $22,725,155K) x 100

Webster County Snippets:

Over 2000-2015, Webster County posted a 126.42% net gain in real industry earnings.
Webster County was joined by sixty-two other counties whose real industry earnings growth over 2000-2015 registered above the statewide average (44.69%).
Ranked #22 among Nebraska's 93 counties, Webster County's real industry earnings growth (126.42%) outperformed the statewide average of 44.69% by a 81.73% margin.
Webster County's net real industry earnings growth (126.42%, #22) over 2000-2015 registered just above that of Cherry County (124.40%, #23) and just below that of Sherman County (129.45%, #21).
Webster County's share of real industry earnings statewide rose from 0.12% in 2000 to 0.18% in 2015, resulting in a share-shift of 0.07%.

Real Industry Earnings Growth by County

2000 vs. 2015, Net Percent Change

County Distribution of Real Industry Earnings Growth, 2000 vs. 2015

	More than 400%	400% to 300%	300% to 200%	200% to 100%	100% to 0%	0% to -100%	-100% to -200%	-200% or Below	Total
2000 vs. 2015	4	2	5	20	61	1	0	0	93

Real Industry Earnings by County, 2015

Douglas County 2015

Real Industry Earnings = $28,870M

Percent of State = 39.24%

Rank = #1

Arthur County 2015

Real Industry Earnings = $17M

Percent of State = 0.02%

Rank = #93

Webster County 2015

Real Industry Earnings = $133M

Percent of State = 0.18%

Rank = #60

Again highlighting Webster County's position, the bar graph above displays the disposition by county of 2015 real industry earnings statewide ($73,574M).

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Statewide Snippets:

Ranked #1, Douglas County's 2015 industry earnings totaled $28,870M, equating to 39.24% of the statewide total.
Ranked last (#93), Arthur County's real industry earnings of $17M in 2015 comprised just 0.02% of the total statewide. Arthur County's real industry earnings in 2015 equates to less than .01% to that of Douglas County's.
Douglas County's 2015 industry earnings ($28,870M) exceeded the combined industry earnings ($28,774M) of Nebraska's ninety smallest counties.

Webster County Snippets:

Webster County's industry earnings in 2015 ranked #60, amounting to 0.18% of the statewide total.
Webster County's industry earnings of $133M placed below that of Stanton County's ($135M, #59), and just above that of Perkins County's ($122M, #61).
Webster County's industry earnings of $133M exceeds the combined total ($128M) of Nebraska's six smallest counties.

Real Industry Earnings by County, 2015

County Distribution of Real Industry Earnings, 2015

	More than $10,000M	$10,000M to $8,000M	$8,000M to $6,000M	$6,000M to $4,000M	$4,000M to $2,000M	$2,000M or Below	Total
2015	2	0	0	1	1	89	93

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Nebraska Real* Industry Earnings by County:
2000 vs. 2015

	2000		2015		2000 - 2015
County	Constant Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Constant Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Net Percent Change	Net Change (1000s)	Share (%) of State Change
Adams	765,555	1.51	993,375	1.35	29.76	227,820	1.00
Antelope	150,037	0.30	233,767	0.32	55.81	83,730	0.37
Arthur	3,261	0.01	16,686	0.02	411.75	13,425	0.06
Banner	10,497	0.02	43,411	0.06	313.56	32,914	0.14
Blaine	7,857	0.02	21,358	0.03	171.84	13,501	0.06
Boone	116,530	0.23	221,588	0.30	90.15	105,058	0.46
Box Butte	355,921	0.70	427,974	0.58	20.24	72,053	0.32
Boyd	32,652	0.06	58,377	0.08	78.79	25,725	0.11
Brown	54,859	0.11	145,035	0.20	164.38	90,176	0.40
Buffalo	1,102,455	2.17	1,684,036	2.29	52.75	581,581	2.56
Burt	116,602	0.23	170,023	0.23	45.81	53,421	0.24
Butler	127,564	0.25	218,984	0.30	71.67	91,420	0.40
Cass	264,524	0.52	346,081	0.47	30.83	81,557	0.36
Cedar	182,195	0.36	225,449	0.31	23.74	43,254	0.19
Chase	94,981	0.19	191,746	0.26	101.88	96,765	0.43
Cherry	96,116	0.19	215,682	0.29	124.40	119,565	0.53
Cheyenne	263,906	0.52	478,855	0.65	81.45	214,948	0.95
Clay	173,735	0.34	220,877	0.30	27.13	47,141	0.21
Colfax	250,791	0.49	357,475	0.49	42.54	106,684	0.47
Cuming	298,049	0.59	573,359	0.78	92.37	275,310	1.21
Custer	205,967	0.41	436,139	0.59	111.75	230,172	1.01
Dakota	571,873	1.12	804,280	1.09	40.64	232,407	1.02
Dawes	145,626	0.29	193,134	0.26	32.62	47,508	0.21
Dawson	578,066	1.14	829,069	1.13	43.42	251,003	1.10
Deuel	30,483	0.06	46,436	0.06	52.34	15,953	0.07
Dixon	105,022	0.21	119,162	0.16	13.46	14,140	0.06
Dodge	807,575	1.59	1,092,183	1.48	35.24	284,608	1.25
Douglas	20,965,839	41.23	28,869,717	39.24	37.70	7,903,878	34.78
Dundy	39,656	0.08	92,673	0.13	133.69	53,017	0.23
Fillmore	149,507	0.29	218,496	0.30	46.14	68,989	0.30
Franklin	44,641	0.09	64,839	0.09	45.25	20,198	0.09
Frontier	51,696	0.10	76,411	0.10	47.81	24,715	0.11
Furnas	86,401	0.17	137,924	0.19	59.63	51,523	0.23
Gage	464,299	0.91	593,050	0.81	27.73	128,751	0.57
Garden	30,162	0.06	52,513	0.07	74.11	22,352	0.10
Garfield	34,494	0.07	65,261	0.09	89.20	30,767	0.14
Gosper	24,090	0.05	44,290	0.06	83.85	20,200	0.09
Grant	6,670	0.01	23,951	0.03	259.08	17,281	0.08
Greeley	40,950	0.08	82,516	0.11	101.50	41,566	0.18
Hall	1,514,849	2.98	2,047,601	2.78	35.17	532,751	2.34
Hamilton	168,276	0.33	318,712	0.43	89.40	150,436	0.66
Harlan	55,087	0.11	111,666	0.15	102.71	56,580	0.25
Hayes	12,423	0.02	57,224	0.08	360.62	44,800	0.20
Hitchcock	31,774	0.06	64,257	0.09	102.23	32,483	0.14
Holt	231,841	0.46	466,177	0.63	101.08	234,336	1.03
Hooker	8,916	0.02	25,678	0.03	187.99	16,762	0.07
Howard	81,344	0.16	143,591	0.20	76.52	62,247	0.27
Jefferson	154,981	0.30	214,406	0.29	38.34	59,425	0.26
Johnson	66,832	0.13	116,526	0.16	74.36	49,694	0.22
Kearney	137,162	0.27	491,254	0.67	258.15	354,091	1.56
Keith	165,705	0.33	238,271	0.32	43.79	72,565	0.32
Keya Paha	10,562	0.02	38,549	0.05	264.98	27,987	0.12
Kimball	77,603	0.15	100,209	0.14	29.13	22,606	0.10
Knox	137,371	0.27	214,434	0.29	56.10	77,063	0.34
Lancaster	8,458,493	16.63	10,955,916	14.89	29.53	2,497,423	10.99
Lincoln	876,506	1.72	1,435,526	1.95	63.78	559,020	2.46
Logan	8,493	0.02	28,550	0.04	236.14	20,057	0.09
Loup	1,506	0.00	21,836	0.03	1,349.61	20,329	0.09
McPherson	1,693	0.00	18,329	0.02	982.47	16,636	0.07
Madison	985,381	1.94	1,342,394	1.82	36.23	357,013	1.57
Merrick	108,949	0.21	262,707	0.36	141.13	153,758	0.68
Morrill	74,164	0.15	211,036	0.29	184.56	136,873	0.60
Nance	50,488	0.10	71,357	0.10	41.34	20,870	0.09
Nemaha	246,409	0.48	236,680	0.32	-3.95	-9,729	-0.04
Nuckolls	70,837	0.14	112,491	0.15	58.80	41,655	0.18
Otoe	294,945	0.58	377,392	0.51	27.95	82,448	0.36
Pawnee	44,787	0.09	61,220	0.08	36.69	16,432	0.07
Perkins	72,507	0.14	121,789	0.17	67.97	49,282	0.22
Phelps	274,501	0.54	470,164	0.64	71.28	195,663	0.86
Pierce	107,282	0.21	299,409	0.41	179.09	192,127	0.85
Platte	891,826	1.75	1,273,997	1.73	42.85	382,170	1.68
Polk	89,610	0.18	176,063	0.24	96.48	86,453	0.38
Red Willow	242,485	0.48	357,567	0.49	47.46	115,082	0.51
Richardson	154,774	0.30	175,200	0.24	13.20	20,427	0.09
Rock	25,899	0.05	70,882	0.10	173.69	44,983	0.20
Saline	310,771	0.61	458,302	0.62	47.47	147,531	0.65
Sarpy	2,588,239	5.09	4,975,091	6.76	92.22	2,386,852	10.50
Saunders	246,738	0.49	394,450	0.54	59.87	147,712	0.65
Scotts Bluff	906,636	1.78	1,153,620	1.57	27.24	246,984	1.09
Seward	319,918	0.63	458,823	0.62	43.42	138,905	0.61
Sheridan	86,126	0.17	143,844	0.20	67.02	57,718	0.25
Sherman	34,780	0.07	79,802	0.11	129.45	45,023	0.20
Sioux	9,807	0.02	68,101	0.09	594.39	58,294	0.26
Stanton	111,590	0.22	134,796	0.18	20.80	23,206	0.10
Thayer	119,766	0.24	197,253	0.27	64.70	77,486	0.34
Thomas	9,665	0.02	29,517	0.04	205.40	19,852	0.09
Thurston	124,808	0.25	253,170	0.34	102.85	128,362	0.56
Valley	72,996	0.14	154,687	0.21	111.91	81,691	0.36
Washington	423,825	0.83	675,496	0.92	59.38	251,671	1.11
Wayne	189,717	0.37	245,575	0.33	29.44	55,858	0.25
Webster	58,897	0.12	133,354	0.18	126.42	74,457	0.33
Wheeler	31,209	0.06	80,822	0.11	158.97	49,613	0.22
York	416,235	0.82	522,300	0.71	25.48	106,065	0.47

Nebraska	50,849,090	100.00	73,574,244	100.00	44.69	22,725,155	100.00
Metropolitan	35,649,614	70.11	50,052,914	68.03	40.40	14,403,300	63.38
Nonmetropolitan	15,199,476	29.89	23,521,330	31.97	54.75	8,321,854	36.62

United States	8,938,721,519		11,346,284,134		26.93	2,407,562,615
Metropolitan U.S.	8,074,031,591		10,302,874,901		27.61	2,228,843,310
Nonmetropolitan U.S.	864,689,928		1,043,409,233		20.67	178,719,305

*Real total industry earnings determined using the Implicit Price Deflator for
Personal Consumption (2017=1.00).

Source: Calculations by the Nebraska Regional Economic Analysis Project (NE-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis

November 2023

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Nebraska Industry Earnings by County:
2000 vs. 2015

	2000		2015		2000 - 2015
County	Current Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Current Dollars (1000s)	Percent of State Total	Net Percent Change	Net Change (1000s)	Share (%) of State Change
Adams	565,148	1.51	966,544	1.35	71.02	401,396	1.18
Antelope	110,760	0.30	227,453	0.32	105.36	116,693	0.34
Arthur	2,407	0.01	16,235	0.02	574.49	13,828	0.04
Banner	7,749	0.02	42,238	0.06	445.08	34,489	0.10
Blaine	5,800	0.02	20,781	0.03	258.29	14,981	0.04
Boone	86,025	0.23	215,603	0.30	150.63	129,578	0.38
Box Butte	262,748	0.70	416,414	0.58	58.48	153,666	0.45
Boyd	24,104	0.06	56,800	0.08	135.65	32,696	0.10
Brown	40,498	0.11	141,118	0.20	248.46	100,620	0.30
Buffalo	813,854	2.17	1,638,550	2.29	101.33	824,696	2.42
Burt	86,078	0.23	165,431	0.23	92.19	79,353	0.23
Butler	94,170	0.25	213,069	0.30	126.26	118,899	0.35
Cass	195,277	0.52	336,733	0.47	72.44	141,456	0.42
Cedar	134,500	0.36	219,360	0.31	63.09	84,860	0.25
Chase	70,117	0.19	186,567	0.26	166.08	116,450	0.34
Cherry	70,955	0.19	209,856	0.29	195.76	138,901	0.41
Cheyenne	194,821	0.52	465,921	0.65	139.15	271,100	0.80
Clay	128,255	0.34	214,911	0.30	67.57	86,656	0.25
Colfax	185,139	0.49	347,820	0.49	87.87	162,681	0.48
Cuming	220,026	0.59	557,873	0.78	153.55	337,847	0.99
Custer	152,049	0.41	424,359	0.59	179.09	272,310	0.80
Dakota	422,168	1.12	782,556	1.09	85.37	360,388	1.06
Dawes	107,504	0.29	187,917	0.26	74.80	80,413	0.24
Dawson	426,740	1.14	806,676	1.13	89.03	379,936	1.12
Deuel	22,503	0.06	45,182	0.06	100.78	22,679	0.07
Dixon	77,529	0.21	115,943	0.16	49.55	38,414	0.11
Dodge	596,168	1.59	1,062,683	1.48	78.25	466,515	1.37
Douglas	15,477,402	41.23	28,089,946	39.24	81.49	12,612,544	37.04
Dundy	29,275	0.08	90,170	0.13	208.01	60,895	0.18
Fillmore	110,369	0.29	212,594	0.30	92.62	102,225	0.30
Franklin	32,955	0.09	63,088	0.09	91.44	30,133	0.09
Frontier	38,163	0.10	74,347	0.10	94.81	36,184	0.11
Furnas	63,783	0.17	134,199	0.19	110.40	70,416	0.21
Gage	342,755	0.91	577,032	0.81	68.35	234,277	0.69
Garden	22,266	0.06	51,095	0.07	129.48	28,829	0.08
Garfield	25,464	0.07	63,498	0.09	149.36	38,034	0.11
Gosper	17,784	0.05	43,094	0.06	142.32	25,310	0.07
Grant	4,924	0.01	23,304	0.03	373.27	18,380	0.05
Greeley	30,230	0.08	80,287	0.11	165.59	50,057	0.15
Hall	1,118,292	2.98	1,992,295	2.78	78.16	874,003	2.57
Hamilton	124,225	0.33	310,104	0.43	149.63	185,879	0.55
Harlan	40,666	0.11	108,650	0.15	167.18	67,984	0.20
Hayes	9,171	0.02	55,678	0.08	507.11	46,507	0.14
Hitchcock	23,456	0.06	62,521	0.09	166.55	39,065	0.11
Holt	171,150	0.46	453,586	0.63	165.02	282,436	0.83
Hooker	6,582	0.02	24,984	0.03	279.58	18,402	0.05
Howard	60,050	0.16	139,713	0.20	132.66	79,663	0.23
Jefferson	114,410	0.30	208,615	0.29	82.34	94,205	0.28
Johnson	49,337	0.13	113,379	0.16	129.81	64,042	0.19
Kearney	101,256	0.27	477,985	0.67	372.06	376,729	1.11
Keith	122,327	0.33	231,835	0.32	89.52	109,508	0.32
Keya Paha	7,797	0.02	37,508	0.05	381.06	29,711	0.09
Kimball	57,288	0.15	97,502	0.14	70.20	40,214	0.12
Knox	101,410	0.27	208,642	0.29	105.74	107,232	0.31
Lancaster	6,244,229	16.63	10,659,997	14.89	70.72	4,415,768	12.97
Lincoln	647,054	1.72	1,396,752	1.95	115.86	749,698	2.20
Logan	6,270	0.02	27,779	0.04	343.05	21,509	0.06
Loup	1,112	0.00	21,246	0.03	1,810.61	20,134	0.06
McPherson	1,250	0.00	17,834	0.02	1,326.72	16,584	0.05
Madison	727,428	1.94	1,306,136	1.82	79.56	578,708	1.70
Merrick	80,428	0.21	255,611	0.36	217.81	175,183	0.51
Morrill	54,749	0.15	205,336	0.29	275.05	150,587	0.44
Nance	37,271	0.10	69,430	0.10	86.28	32,159	0.09
Nemaha	181,904	0.48	230,287	0.32	26.60	48,383	0.14
Nuckolls	52,293	0.14	109,453	0.15	109.31	57,160	0.17
Otoe	217,734	0.58	367,199	0.51	68.65	149,465	0.44
Pawnee	33,063	0.09	59,566	0.08	80.16	26,503	0.08
Perkins	53,526	0.14	118,499	0.17	121.39	64,973	0.19
Phelps	202,642	0.54	457,465	0.64	125.75	254,823	0.75
Pierce	79,198	0.21	291,322	0.41	267.84	212,124	0.62
Platte	658,364	1.75	1,239,586	1.73	88.28	581,222	1.71
Polk	66,152	0.18	171,308	0.24	158.96	105,156	0.31
Red Willow	179,007	0.48	347,909	0.49	94.35	168,902	0.50
Richardson	114,257	0.30	170,468	0.24	49.20	56,211	0.17
Rock	19,119	0.05	68,967	0.10	260.72	49,848	0.15
Saline	229,417	0.61	445,923	0.62	94.37	216,506	0.64
Sarpy	1,910,690	5.09	4,840,714	6.76	153.35	2,930,024	8.61
Saunders	182,147	0.49	383,796	0.54	110.71	201,649	0.59
Scotts Bluff	669,297	1.78	1,122,461	1.57	67.71	453,164	1.33
Seward	236,170	0.63	446,430	0.62	89.03	210,260	0.62
Sheridan	63,580	0.17	139,959	0.20	120.13	76,379	0.22
Sherman	25,675	0.07	77,647	0.11	202.42	51,972	0.15
Sioux	7,240	0.02	66,262	0.09	815.22	59,022	0.17
Stanton	82,378	0.22	131,155	0.18	59.21	48,777	0.14
Thayer	88,414	0.24	191,925	0.27	117.08	103,511	0.30
Thomas	7,135	0.02	28,720	0.04	302.52	21,585	0.06
Thurston	92,136	0.25	246,332	0.34	167.36	154,196	0.45
Valley	53,887	0.14	150,509	0.21	179.30	96,622	0.28
Washington	312,876	0.83	657,251	0.92	110.07	344,375	1.01
Wayne	140,053	0.37	238,942	0.33	70.61	98,889	0.29
Webster	43,479	0.12	129,752	0.18	198.42	86,273	0.25
Wheeler	23,039	0.06	78,639	0.11	241.33	55,600	0.16
York	307,273	0.82	508,193	0.71	65.39	200,920	0.59

Nebraska	37,537,815	100.00	71,587,004	100.00	90.71	34,049,189	100.00
Metropolitan	26,317,258	70.11	48,700,985	68.03	85.05	22,383,727	65.74
Nonmetropolitan	11,220,557	29.89	22,886,019	31.97	103.97	11,665,462	34.26

United States	6,598,743,000		11,039,821,000		67.30	4,441,078,000
Metropolitan U.S.	5,960,411,601		10,024,594,250		68.19	4,064,182,649
Nonmetropolitan U.S.	638,331,399		1,015,226,750		59.04	376,895,351

Source: Calculations by the Nebraska Regional Economic Analysis Project (NE-REAP)
with data provided by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis

November 2023

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