Wednesday, May 08, 2013

The Best Cities For Jobs 2013 - Forbes

The Best Cities For Jobs 2013 - Forbes: The Best Cities For Jobs 20133 comments, 0 called-out Comment Now Follow Comments Following Comments Unfollow Comments
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The latest edition of our list shows many things, but perhaps the most important is which cities have momentum in the job creation sweepstakes. Right now the biggest winners are the metro areas that are adding higher-wage jobs thanks to America’s two big boom sectors: technology and energy.
Our rankings are based on short, medium and long-term employment performance, and take into account both growth and momentum — whether growth is slowing or accelerating. (For a detailed description of our methodology, click here.) Consequently, areas that have made the strongest recoveries from deep setbacks often do well. Nowhere is this clearer than in the case of the San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City metropolitan division, our top-ranked large metro area (urban regions with more than 450,000 jobs). Over the last year, employment in the San Francisco area expanded a remarkable 4.1%, and is up 3.3% since 2008.

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Jeremy Crum said...

Denver comes in at number 9. This is up from number 15 last year. Forbes attributes this to strong energy and IT sectors within Colorado. Hopefully this will continue to expand and we will see ourselves even higher on next year's list.