In the last year, Wyoming has seen an increase in industrialemployment by 1.2 percent as the state now accounts for 1,200manufacturers and 33,463 workers, according to the 2013 WyomingManufacturers Directory, an industrialdirectory published annually by Manufacturers' News Inc.in Evanston, Ill.

Based on this percentage, Wyoming added 640manufacturing jobs between October 2011 and October2012.

"Wyoming has perhaps the nation's most favorable taxstructure for businesses and has enjoyed an energy boom in recentyears," says Tom Dubin, president of MNI. "The state'ssignificant oil, gas and coal extracting industries have led theway in the creation of new jobs."

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