Morelos pays most per hour, 198 pesos; Yucatán least, 96 pesos. For the last 6 states INEGI publishes too few manufacturing industries for a fair figure; they are marked, not estimated. In 15 states one or more industries were withheld in some month, so the figure covers part of their manufacturing: Aguascalientes (10 of 11 industries), Baja California (15 of 19 industries), Chihuahua (10 of 16 industries), Coahuila (12 of 18 industries), Durango (5 of 7 industries), Hidalgo (12 of 13 industries), Querétaro (15 of 17 industries), San Luis Potosí (15 of 17 industries), Sinaloa (4 of 5 industries), Sonora (12 of 14 industries), Tabasco (4 of 5 industries), Tamaulipas (11 of 15 industries), Tlaxcala (8 of 10 industries), Veracruz (9 of 10 industries), Yucatán (6 of 7 industries).

Source: INEGI, Encuesta Mensual de la Industria Manufacturera (EMIM), state tables, 2025 (definitive; read 5 November 2026). Our arithmetic: the year's pay to employees, and the year's value of production, each divided by all hours worked, summed over the manufacturing industries INEGI publishes for the state in all twelve months (industries withheld for confidentiality are left out). Current pesos, before inflation. Pay is as INEGI measures it for employees on the payroll; it is not the full cost of hiring a worker for a new plant.

Output per hour worked

Value of manufacturing production per hour worked, pesos, 2025 (derived)

Tabasco4,104

Hidalgo2,619

Puebla2,436

Veracruz2,292

Morelos2,261

Aguascalientes2,226

San Luis Potosí2,062

Coahuila2,034

Guanajuato1,799

Sonora1,775

Colima1,676

Chiapas1,508

Michoacán1,416

Nuevo León1,416

State of Mexico1,403

Querétaro1,386

Sinaloa1,373

Mexico City1,359

Tlaxcala1,187

Jalisco1,139

Durango1,068

Yucatán989

Zacatecas925

Baja California501

Tamaulipas441

Chihuahua401

Baja California Surno figure: too few industries published

Campecheno figure: too few industries published

Guerrerono figure: too few industries published

Nayaritno figure: too few industries published

Oaxacano figure: too few industries published

Quintana Roono figure: too few industries published

Mostly a picture of what each state makes: refining, cars and steel produce far more value per hour than clothing or food, whatever the skill of the people. In our reading, plants that assemble under contract for a foreign owner (maquiladoras, common on the border) book a service fee rather than the full value of the goods, which would make states such as Chihuahua, Tamaulipas and Baja California read low. Read it beside the industry mix, not as a score of the workforce.

The IMSS insured wage by state (on Wages and payroll tax) covers every sector and is capped; the figures here are manufacturing only. Two different sources, never mixed.

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