Forbes Magazine's "Best Cities for Jobs" (Pittsburgh: unemployment rate, school district)

[bboy36win]

This is interesting. From the Pittsburgh Business Times:

Pittsburgh slipped five spots to 76th in a ranking of the 100 "Best Cities for Jobs" by Forbes magazine.

The city did rank ninth for cost of living, one of five data points used to set the rankings.

In addition to cost of living, Forbes included unemployment rate, job growth, income growth, median household income, all weighted equally. Pittsburgh had a poor showing in income growth, ranking 85th, and was 79th in job growth.

Pittsburgh did outrank Chicago-Naperville-Joliet (82nd), Boston-Quincy (83rd), and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale (88th), as well as rival Cleveland (92nd).

The Raleigh-Cary, N.C., metro rose to first overall from 7th last year while Detroit again placed 100th.

[Hopes]

Can you provide a link to the article?

[mm_mary73]

Originally Posted by bboy36win

This is interesting. From the Pittsburgh Business Times:

Pittsburgh slipped five spots to 76th in a ranking of the 100 "Best Cities for Jobs" by Forbes magazine.

The city did rank ninth for cost of living, one of five data points used to set the rankings.

In addition to cost of living, Forbes included unemployment rate, job growth, income growth, median household income, all weighted equally. Pittsburgh had a poor showing in income growth, ranking 85th, and was 79th in job growth.

Pittsburgh did outrank Chicago-Naperville-Joliet (82nd), Boston-Quincy (83rd), and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale (88th), as well as rival Cleveland (92nd).

The Raleigh-Cary, N.C., metro rose to first overall from 7th last year while Detroit again placed 100th.

Raleigh-Cary is most of Wake County and together with Durham (Orange county) make up the Research Triangle Park (RTP). Check out http://www.ncgov.com/ Y'all be sweet!

[bboy36win]

Here is the Forbes article (there's a link to the full table at the bottom):
http://www.forbes.com/leadership/careers/2007/02/15/best-cities-jobs-leadership-careers_cx_hc_0216cityjobs.html (broken link)

And the Pittsburgh Business Times reference to it:
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pi...l?surround=lfn

[Hopes]

Thanks! I want to see where I'm moving when my son graduates from high school.

Seriously, I'm not surprised one bit about Pittsburgh losing economic ground.

I guess a low cost of living helps with survival during hard times.

[eccotecc]

Hope job prospects have gotten better.

[zman63]

Originally Posted by bboy36win

This is interesting. From the Pittsburgh Business Times:

Pittsburgh slipped five spots to 76th in a ranking of the 100 "Best Cities for Jobs" by Forbes magazine.

The city did rank ninth for cost of living, one of five data points used to set the rankings.

In addition to cost of living, Forbes included unemployment rate, job growth, income growth, median household income, all weighted equally. Pittsburgh had a poor showing in income growth, ranking 85th, and was 79th in job growth.

Pittsburgh did outrank Chicago-Naperville-Joliet (82nd), Boston-Quincy (83rd), and Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale (88th), as well as rival Cleveland (92nd).

The Raleigh-Cary, N.C., metro rose to first overall from 7th last year while Detroit again placed 100th.

Im not surprised at all by this ranking. Job growth is nonexistant in pittsburgh. Large companies that are here are cutting a lot of workers. There are hardly any business startups as well. This comes back to my point of the 27 to 45 age group being the smallest in the region. This is the group in the prime earning years of their career. Not surprising pittsburgh ranks low in income. Also this is the group trying to expand their career and move forward. Not surprising our job growth ranks very low.

All of these numbers have meaning. We are finding out pittsburgh is a city with limited economic opportunity. The age and demographic numbers mirror that.

Funny we were talking about raliegh and wake county in another thread. Their city and county are very young. I head excuses that it had no character. But the age and demographic numbers tell a different story as they are opposite of ours. There is economic opportunity.

Also,they are doing just fine with one city county school district down there.

[steindle]

Originally Posted by zman63

Im not surprised at all by this ranking. Job growth is nonexistant in pittsburgh. Large companies that are here are cutting a lot of workers. There are hardly any business startups as well. This comes back to my point of the 27 to 45 age group being the smallest in the region. This is the group in the prime earning years of their career. Not surprising pittsburgh ranks low in income. Also this is the group trying to expand their career and move forward. Not surprising our job growth ranks very low.

All of these numbers have meaning. We are finding out pittsburgh is a city with limited economic opportunity. The age and demographic numbers mirror that.

Do you have any other moves?

[szug-bot]

i am in grad school. if i do finish by mid 2016 (i might not because ive just had enough of the stress!), i suspect i will start looking for more lucrative opportunities, and will find a better overall living situation elsewhere. that is not my intention, but i feel the pieces for that scenario will just fall into place.

[dbsteel]

Jeeze... isn't that article from 2007?