With “get a better job” being one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions in the U.S., the unemployment rate dropping to its lowest since 2007, and employers expecting to hire nearly 6 percent more college graduates from the Class of 2017 than they did from the previous graduating class, the personal-finance website WalletHub conducted an analysis of 2017’s Best & Worst Cities for Jobs.
In order to identify the strongest local job markets in the U.S., WalletHub’s analysts compared the 150 of the most populated cities across 23 key metrics. The data set ranges from “job opportunities” to “employment growth” to “monthly median starting salary.”
Ten Best
1. Scottsdale, Arizona
2. Plano, Texas
3. Orlando, Florida
4. Sioux Falls, South Dakota
5. San Francisco
6. Rancho Cucamonga, California
7. Chandler, Arizona
8. Salt Lake City
9. Tempe, Arizona
10. Raleigh, North Carolina
Ten Worst
141. Rochester, New York
142. Tallahassee, Florida
143. Cleveland
144. Worcester, Massachusetts
145. Oxnard, California
146. Buffalo, New York
147. Newark, New Jersey
148. Bakersfield, California
149. Fresno, California
150. Detroit
Ohio
41. Cincinnati
65. Columbus
104. Akron
107. Toledo
143. Cleveland
•Tacoma, Washington, has the highest monthly median starting salary (adjusted by cost of living), $3,428, which is 2.5 times higher than in Honolulu, Hawaii, the city with the lowest at $1,360.
•Gilbert, Arizona, has the highest median annual income (adjusted by cost of living), $85,948, which is 3.3 times higher than in Hialeah, Florida, the city with the lowest at $25,827.
•Lincoln, Nebraska, the city with the lowest unemployment rate, 2.5 percent, which is five times lower than in Detroit, the city with the highest at 12.4 percent.
•Plano, Texas, the city with the fewest number of part-time employees for every 100 full-time employees, 38.04, which is 2.6 times fewer than in Tallahassee, Florida, the city with the most at 97.36.
•Fremont, California, the city with the lowest share of workers living in poverty, 2.3 percent, which is 8.7 times lower than in Tallahassee, Florida, the city with the highest at 20.1 percent.
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