The distribution of employees hired by staffing agencies is uneven across states, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal that analyzes US Department of Labor data. In South Carolina, one in 25 workers is a temp, the highest share in the country, and other southern states have a relatively high portion of staffing-agency workers. Conversely, temps make up a smaller share of the workforce in less-populated states. Just 0.4% of all workers are temps in Alaska, and fewer than one in 100 workers are temps in South Dakota, Wyoming and Hawaii. Pay for these workers tends to be better in states where they make up a smaller share of the labor force.