North Dakota’s Human Rights Act provides state-level protection including participation-in-lawful-off-duty-activity coverage that exceeds most baselines. The state’s Bakken-formation energy concentration drives a substantial share of sectoral damages-modeling complexity.
Bakken oil-and-gas
Bakken-area plaintiffs face compensation with rotational schedules, completion-linked performance bonuses, and substantial commodity-dependent components. The model runs commodity-scenario sensitivity, treats rotational schedules explicitly, and accounts for the pronounced cyclicality of the regional oil-services economy.
Thin labor market
Outside Fargo, Bismarck, and the Bakken workforce corridor, the North Dakota labor market is thin. Imputed mitigation requires evidence of available work in a realistic geography, not a national occupational average.
Worklife & discount-rate notes
North Dakota's energy, agriculture, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors produce varied compensation structures. Bakken oil-and-gas plaintiffs face rotational schedules, completion-linked bonuses, and commodity-dependent base structures; agricultural plaintiffs face commodity-cycle compensation; healthcare plaintiffs in Fargo and Bismarck face regional-system compensation.
