Best Reports

Alabama BEST- Released Thursday, May 19, 2011

BEST- Basic Economic Security Tables, is an income sufficiency standard that includes asset building components for various family configurations at a local geographic level. The BEST index measures the income required for workers to make ends meet and save. It quantifies the value of employment-based benefits, it is a de facto definition of good incomes and good jobs, a starting point for the policymakers, advocates, researchers and service providers who help build stability.

CLICK HERE for the Executive Summary

CLICK HERE to see the full report - The full report contains tables for 4 family configurations.

CLICK HERE to see all families - The all families report reflects over 400 family configurations for each jurisdiction, and provides the data for jobs with and without benefits.**Requires Microsoft Excel**

Click on a county below for a county-specific summary of what it takes to make ends meet and save.

Autauga Baldwin Barbour Bibb Blount Bullock Butler Calhoun Chambers Cherokee Chilton Choctaw Clarke Clay Cleburne Coffee Colbert Conecuh Coosa Covington Crenshaw Cullman Dale Dallas DeKalb

Elmore Escambia Etowah Fayette Franklin Geneva Greene Hale Henry Houston Jackson Jefferson Lamar Lauderdale Lawrence Lee Limestone Lowndes Macon Madison Marengo Marion Marshall Mobile Monroe

Montgomery Morgan Perry Pickens Pike Randolph Russell Shelby St. Clair Sumter Talladega Tallapoosa Tuscaloosa Walker Washington Wilcox Winston

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