Outside of the Bay Area (which accounts for maybe 18% of the population) they really don't. Check out [1] and sort the table by median household income. You h

Outside of the Bay Area (which accounts for maybe 18% of the population) they really don't. Check out [1] and sort the table by median household income. You have to go way down the list to get to a place outside the Bay. In fact, California is ranked 10th for household income by state [2], after Virginia. If you excluded the Bay Area bubble it would be much lower. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_counties_by_per_capita_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_counties... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_income