The best states to work if you don't have a college degree

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A move to the Southwest might be wise.

• A report from Georgetown University identified the best states to live if you haven't received a college degree.
• The report looked at the percent of workers in a state without a degree and the median earnings for those workers.
• Arizona is the state with the greatest increase in well-paid service jobs between 1991 and 2015.

If you don't have college degree you might consider a move to the Southwest.

That's because Arizona is the best state to work in without a college degree, according to a report by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.

The report, which Business Insider first read about on CNBC, looked at the percentage of workers in a given state without a bachelor of arts (BA) degree, the median earnings for those workers, and how much those available jobs have grown in the past few decades.

Below are the top 10 states, ranked based on the percentage increase of well-paid service jobs between between 1991 and 2015.