#hawaii cost of living

The Chamber of Commerce Hawaiʻi’s Young Professionals Program hosted the inaugural Cost of Living Summit on May 18, bringing together more than 100 young professionals, executives and policymakers.

The Maui Police Commission voted unanimously to recommend a $47,000 bump in pay for the Maui Police Chief. The item will be brought before the Maui Salary Commission for consideration.

His proposals are aimed at amending the Jones Act, which he says is “widely credited with artificially inflating the cost of shipping goods to Hawaiʻi.”

The incomes of the bottom fifth income earners in Hawaiʻi are the fifth lowest in the nation, according to a new study. The study, called Who Pays? A Distributional Analysis of the Tax Systems in All 50 States, analyzed tax systems in all 50 states. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy released the study, […]

The cost of food, housing, transportation and utilities in Hawaiʻi per paycheck are substantial with utilities coting more than double the U.S. average.

Honolulu home prices, including distressed sales, increased by 6.6% in April 2016 compared to April 2015; prices increased by .4% in April compared to March.

Housing cost an average of 43.2% of total expenditures or $26,982 per year; food was 14.7% or $9,171 per year; transportation was 13.9% or $8,714 per year.

In its second annual study, SmartAsset, a New York financial technology company, determined that Maui County ranked second in the state for best places to live on Social Security, up from No. 4 in last year’s study.

The State of Hawai‘i has ranked fourth in Kiplinger’s list of the country’s least tax-friendly states, topped only by California, Connecticut and New Jersey.

The impetus for a package of bills introduced by the joint Senate and House task force on housing and homelessness is the fact that in the Aloha State, the difference between being homeless and having a home can be a razor-thin line. Hawai‘i has a chronic housing shortage and a high cost of housing.