{"id":754317,"date":"2026-07-10T08:53:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754317\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T08:53:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T08:53:29","slug":"washington-is-no-11-on-top-states-for-business-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/754317\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington is No. 11 on Top States for Business 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Janos Varga | Istock | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Washington Score and RankingCATEGORY 2026 SCORE 2026 RANK 2025 RANK 2026 GRADE INFRASTRUCTURE2461626B-ECONOMY28756A-WORKFORCE23565B+QUALITY OF LIFE1761214B-COST OF DOING BUSINESS784748D-TECHNOLOGY &amp; INNOVATION16944A-BUSINESS FRIENDLINESS864041DACCESS TO CAPITAL821114B+EDUCATION433733C-COST OF LIVING174139D+OVERALL14191114<a id=\"headline0\"\/>Economic Profile<\/p>\n<p>Governor: Bob Ferguson, Democrat<\/p>\n<p>Population: 8,001,020<\/p>\n<p>GDP growth (Q1 2026): 4.50%<\/p>\n<p>Unemployment rate (May 2026): 5.20%<\/p>\n<p>Top corporate tax rate: None<\/p>\n<p>Top individual income tax rate: None<\/p>\n<p>Gasoline tax: 78.99 cents\/gallon<\/p>\n<p>Bond rating (Moody&#8217;s\/S&amp;P): Aaa, Stable\/AA+, Stable<\/p>\n<p>Economic profile sources: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Federation of Tax Administrators, American Petroleum Institute (including 18.40 cent\/gallon federal tax), Moody&#8217;s Investor Service, S&amp;P Global Market Intelligence<\/p>\n<p>More coverage of the 2026 America&#8217;s Top States for Business<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Janos Varga | Istock | Getty Images Washington Score and RankingCATEGORY 2026 SCORE 2026 RANK 2025 RANK 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,122,1051,101,113349,2603,13951,2002],"class_list":["post-754317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-business-news","tag-economic-events","tag-economy","tag-exclude-from-automated-curation","tag-social-issues","tag-suppress-zephr","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=754317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}