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We ranked all 421 current metropolitan statistical areas based on employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2003 through 2014. Rankings are based on recent growth trends, mid-term growth, long-term growth and the region’s momentum. We also broke down rankings by size since regional economies differ markedly due to their scale.
1. San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA 1.034 million jobs
2. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 1.032 million jobs
3. Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX 2.346 million jobs
4. Austin-Round Rock, TX 925 million jobs
5. Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin,TN 892 million jobs 6. Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX 2.974million jobs
7. Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO 1,364 million jobs 8. Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL 1.14 million jobs
9. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC 1.085 million jobs
10. San Antonia-New Braunfels, TX 960 million jobs.
We ranked all 421 current metropolitan statistical areas based on employment data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics from 2003 through 2014. Rankings are based on recent growth trends, mid-term growth, long-term growth and the region’s momentum. We also broke down rankings by size since regional economies differ markedly due to their scale.
1. San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA 1.034 million jobs
2. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 1.032 million jobs
3. Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX 2.346 million jobs
4. Austin-Round Rock, TX 925 million jobs
5. Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin,TN 892 million jobs
6. Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX 2.974million jobs
7. Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO 1,364 million jobs
8. Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL 1.14 million jobs
9. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC 1.085 million jobs
10. San Antonia-New Braunfels, TX 960 million jobs.
Whoa, so pretty much the rest of the planet can find work in Austin, Nashville, Denver, and San Antonio. That's 4,141 million (or 4.141 billion) jobs between those four cities. Impressive.
All in the south and west. I still don't like Houston being up there since it's experiencing a job loss at the moment, but since they said 2003-2014, it's whatever.
Whoa, so pretty much the rest of the planet can find work in Austin, Nashville, Denver, and San Antonio. That's 4,141 million (or 4.141 billion) jobs between those four cities. Impressive.
It's four million jobs...don't know what you're getting at. You can see the decimal points which indicates significant numbers. It's not 4,000 million. It's 4.0 million.
Whoa, so pretty much the rest of the planet can find work in Austin, Nashville, Denver, and San Antonio. That's 4,141 million (or 4.141 billion) jobs between those four cities. Impressive.
Those Forbes guys have surprisingly good math for being a magazine about numbers.
All in the south and west. I still don't like Houston being up there since it's experiencing a job loss at the moment, but since they said 2003-2014, it's whatever.
It's not like what happened in the past year should offset what has happened in the past decade in Houston. Not to mention that Houston is in far better shape to handle it as opposed to the 80s. Houston is rightfully on this list and could have a bounce back now that Oil is going back up.
It's four million jobs...don't know what you're getting at. You can see the decimal points which indicates significant numbers. It's not 4,000 million. It's 4.0 million.
Nope. The decimal points are not there. They're not in the first post, and they're not at the Forbes site. Just do a cut-and-paste from that obnoxious Forbes slide show and you'll see that there are no decimal points before the numbers for Austin, Nashville, and San Antonio, and Forbes put a comma instead of a decimal in the number for Denver.
And of course I know it's not 4 billion jobs. I was being tongue in cheek. Good Lord.
This is lazy journalism...instead of quantity they should be looking at quality i.e. total compensation, and comparing compensation to the cost of living.
25,000 jobs that pay $70,000 per year = 50,000 jobs that pay $35,000 per year
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