Prices, pay, taxes, homes and family budgets, county by county, from the same official data the site's calculators use.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis measures price levels in every state against a national average of 100. Hawaii scores 110.0 overall, so a $75,000 salary at average US prices buys what $82,463 buys here. Compare any salary with another state.
| Price level | Hawaii (US = 100) | Rank, most expensive first |
|---|---|---|
| Everything | 110.0 | 2nd of 51 |
| Rents | 125.3 | 7th of 51 |
| Goods | 111.6 | — |
| Other services | 102.9 | — |
Home electricity averaged 42.86 cents a kilowatt-hour in 2024, against 17.06 across all states. A gallon of regular gas cost $5.42 at the end of August 2026, against $4.12.
Across all 627,530 jobs the Bureau of Labor Statistics counts in Hawaii, the median pay is $56,320 a year, or $27.08 an hour; that ranks 15th of the 50 states and DC. One worker in ten earns less than $34,170 and one in ten more than $123,660.
Hawaii taxes wages in brackets, with a top rate of 11%. The brackets in Hawaii. A single filer on the median $56,320, with no retirement or health deductions, takes home about $44,262 a year, or $1,702 every two weeks, after $4,578 of federal income tax, $4,308 of Social Security and Medicare and $3,172 of state income tax. Work out your own paycheck in Hawaii.
The five occupations employing the most people, with their median annual pay:
| Occupation | Jobs | Median pay |
|---|---|---|
| Fast Food and Counter Workers | 24,130 | $35,250 |
| Retail Salespersons | 19,180 | $37,790 |
| Waiters and Waitresses | 14,090 | $62,390 |
| General and Operations Managers | 13,380 | $108,180 |
| Registered Nurses | 12,940 | $136,320 |
Of the 20 largest occupations, the best paid are registered nurses ($136,320), general and operations managers ($108,180), first-line supervisors of office and administrative support workers ($63,080). See what common jobs pay in every state.
Across the 4 Hawaii counties with their own Zillow home value, the median typical home is worth $924,530, and across the 4 with their own rent figure the median typical rent is $3,168 a month. A typical home costs 8.02 years of the county's median family income, at the median county.
With 10% down at 7.03%, the average 30-year rate on September 24, 2026, that home costs about $7,062 a month with tax, insurance and mortgage insurance, which takes $302,649 a year of income under the usual 28% guideline. The median family can afford its own county's typical home in 0.0% of Hawaii's counties, against 44.9% of counties nationally. Try it with your own income.
At the median county, home values changed +1.4% over the past year and +22.1% over five years, and rents +6.9% over the past year.
The Economic Policy Institute prices what a modest but adequate standard of living costs in every county: housing, food, transport, healthcare, childcare, other necessities and taxes. In the median Hawaii county, that comes to $72,342 a year for one adult and $140,076 for two adults and two children, of which $19,313 is childcare. The national averages are $47,367 and $101,771. Median family income in the median county is $108,453.
| Two adults, two children | Per year, median county | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| Housing | $25,620 | $2,135 |
| Food | $16,456 | $1,371 |
| Transportation | $20,029 | $1,669 |
| Healthcare | $18,139 | $1,512 |
| Childcare | $19,313 | $1,609 |
| Other necessities | $13,063 | $1,089 |
| Taxes | $29,365 | $2,447 |
Each line is its own median across counties, so the lines do not add up exactly to the total.
The Department of Education's College Scorecard lists 20 colleges in Hawaii, 10 of them public. The median public college reports a cost of attendance of $15,612 a year, covering tuition, housing, books and other expenses. Ten years after enrolling, the median school's former students earn $42,561. Compare degrees and schools.
| Hawaii County | $577,316 | +1.1% | $2,742 | $93,830 | $139,766 |
| Honolulu County | $854,605 | +1.6% | $3,004 | $122,272 | $149,860 |
| Kalawao County | — | — | — | — | $139,609 |
| Kauai County | $1,015,489 | +1.7% | $3,347 | $107,023 | $149,214 |
| Maui County | $994,454 | −4.0% | $3,332 | $109,882 | $140,076 |
A dash means the source publishes no figure for that county. Home values and rents are Zillow's own county figures only; counties Zillow does not cover are left blank rather than filled with a state average.
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County figures are medians across Hawaii's counties, each counting once, so they describe the spread of places rather than of people. Property tax and insurance vary widely; the calculators let you use your own.