City Ranking: Job Postings:Job Seekers Ratio (employment, 2009, average)

[bamba_boy]

I came across a very succinct metric of job availability vs local seekers in the following list. Best is DC at 1:1 and worst is Detroit (1:you don't want to know). It's up-to-date (July 2009) information for the 50 largest US cities.

There is a huge interest in all the individual city forums for people complaining about hiring in their own city and/or wondering if it's better in other cities. Lots of gossip but little hard information. I hope this can help:

Can't Find a Job? Best and Worst Job Markets | Indeed.com

[highway29south]

Whoa, I'm surprised Pittsburgh was so high on the list. My husband and I always joke that if he lost his job, we'd have to move for sure. There just doesn't seem to be that many jobs available.

Interesting info, though!

[annerk]

And everyone wants to move to Florida. Then they get here and can't find jobs and end up just another freaking statistic living in their car pissed off at the world, yet people can't figure out why we keep telling people NOT to come here.

[GypsySoul22]

Originally Posted by annerk

And everyone wants to move to Florida. Then they get here and can't find jobs and end up just another freaking statistic living in their car pissed off at the world, yet people can't figure out why we keep telling people NOT to come here.

Vermont may not be paradise but there is no way I'd go to Florida! Ugh. My brother has been trying to get us to move there for years but despite his 'carrot on stick, you can get a teaching job no problem' I wouldn't go there. My husband and I do not think Florida is right for us.

[bamba_boy]

I thought that my Houston would be way up there too but it's just above the middle of the pack. I guess you're going to get a job if you're a rocket scientist (NASA), heart transplant surgeon (HMC), or chem/petroleum engineer (major oil and energy service comps), but a lot of average joe's will move here without a job and be hurting for awhile, duke'ing it out with the locals for the few normal-joe-jobs.

[Jesse69]

I just recently applied for 2 perfect matching technical writer jobs in Baltimore but got no responses... And Baltimore looked good!

[mwv]

Originally Posted by bamba_boy

I thought that my Houston would be way up there too but it's just above the middle of the pack. I guess you're going to get a job if you're a rocket scientist (NASA), heart transplant surgeon (HMC), or chem/petroleum engineer (major oil and energy service comps), but a lot of average joe's will move here without a job and be hurting for awhile, duke'ing it out with the locals for the few normal-joe-jobs.

The economy in Texas is rapidly catching up to most of the rest of country, although half the reason is due to so many out of state people moving here.

[GypsySoul22]

So now after yet another poll/ranking we'll have a new crop of desperados moving to Baltimore and DC...

[DailyJournalist]

The Philadelphia metro did not rank to bad and above Houston and Dallas which most people about a year ago were saying was recession proof.

[DailyJournalist]

Originally Posted by annerk

And everyone wants to move to Florida. Then they get here and can't find jobs and end up just another freaking statistic living in their car pissed off at the world, yet people can't figure out why we keep telling people NOT to come here.

That is so true, everyone I knew in Orlando Florida has left for other states.