10 Cities with Booming Job Growth
Number of jobs added between 2010 and 2013: 250,607
Percentage of total jobs due to the city’s competitive effect: 3.6
Local industries that helped drive job growth: oil and gas extraction, engineering
Flickr/Norm Lanier
Number of jobs added between 2010 and 2013: 221,161
Percentage of total jobs due to the city’s competitive effect: 2.7
Local industries that helped drive job growth: commercial banking, education, hospitals
Number of jobs added between 2010 and 2013: 165,768
Percentage of total jobs due to the city’s competitive effect: 3.6
Local industries that helped drive job growth: computer systems design, web search portals
Flickr/Christian Arballo
Number of jobs added between 2010 and 2013: 283,664
Percentage of total jobs due to the city’s competitive effect: 1.2
Local industries that helped drive job growth: motion pictures, artist agents and managers
Flickr/Kevin Stanchfield
Number of jobs added between 2010 and 2013: 84,774
Percentage of total jobs due to the city’s competitive effect: 6
Local industries that helped drive job growth: data processing, semiconductor manufacturing
Flickr/Knowsphotos
Number of jobs added between 2010 and 2013: 124,501
Percentage of total jobs due to the city’s competitive effect: 2.8
Local industries that helped drive job growth: education, commercial banking
Flickr/Barandur
Number of jobs added between 2010 and 2013: 134,588
Percentage of total jobs due to the city’s competitive effect: 2
Local industries that helped drive job growth: legal services, freight transportation, real estate
Flickr/Anonymonk
Number of jobs added between 2010 and 2013: 90,559
Percentage of total jobs due to the city’s competitive effect: 4.2
Local industries that helped drive job growth: computer system design, software publishing
Flickr/atmtx
Number of jobs added between 2010 and 2013: 125,330
Percentage of total jobs due to the city’s competitive effect: 1.9
Local industries that helped drive job growth: auto manufacturing, engineering services
Flickr/Bryan Debus
Number of jobs added between 2010 and 2013: 76,646
Percentage of total jobs due to the city’s competitive effect: 2.4
Local industries that helped drive job growth: warehousing, storage, engineering
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