Perhaps not coincidentally, those three are among the states with the nation’s lowest minimum wage — the federally mandated rate of $7.25 an hour.
By comparison, about 1.7% of workers in Washington, D.C., quit their jobs in August, marking the lowest quits rate among all states recorded in August, according to the data.
Nationally, almost 3% of workers handed in their resignations in August — a record — the government reported earlier this month.
On the positive side, it signals that the job market is strong for workers, offering incentives to switch jobs or to simply quit a miserable job in the belief that something better will come along quickly.
“A fair amount of the variation in quitting across the country is driven by the types of jobs that are disproportionately done in different parts of the country,” said Nick Bunker, director of economic research at Indeed Hiring Lab.
At the same time, workers are facing higher costs for everything from groceries to housing because of rising inflation.
Among those entrepreneurs is Nick Folmar, who was furloughed by his janitorial company 13 months ago and decided to start Jet Stream Clean, his carpet-cleaning business along the Alabama-Georgia border.