Posted on 07/03/2017 8:06:46 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As the country moves toward full employment, at least as economists define it, the quality of jobs has replaced joblessness as the primary concern. With wages still stagnant, rising an anemic 2.5% in the year to May, the biggest challenge for most parts of the U.S. is not getting more people into the workforce but rather driving the creation of the types of jobs that can sustain a middle-class quality of life.
To that end, the key sector to watch is business and professional services. By far the nation’s largest high-wage sector -- including such fields as law, accounting, architecture, advertising, engineering, scientific research and development, and computer systems design – it employs 20.5 million Americans, roughly the same as the finance and manufacturing industries combined. Over the past decade, the number of people working in business and professional services has expanded by nearly 2.5 million, including an increase of more than half a million jobs in the last year.
We decided to take a look at which metropolitan areas are gaining the most professional and business services jobs and the trends that are driving some to pull ahead while others fade. Our rankings look at employment in the sector over time— assessing short, medium and long-term job trends and adding in variables for persistence and momentum as well. The results of these trends, based on three-month averages, are normalized and each metropolitan statistical area is assigned a score based on its relative position in each area. The rankings this year produced some surprising results, as well as some familiar stories.....
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Nashville
Kansas City
Austin
San Antonio
Houston
Dallas
San Jose
San Francisco
Boston
Lots of jobs, high wages and good standards of living.
It helps if you know how to do something.
If you’re not working in Dallas/Fort Worth, you don’t want to work. When I was healthy I had no problem finding good jobs. Look at Indeed, CareerBuilder or Craigslist.
When we list jobs for IT and legal in Austin, we get tons or resumes from every corner of the country and overseas. Young talent will work for less to live in Austin.
They’d better check the rental and real estate listings then.
I live in the Charlotte Metro area.
The IT people I run into daily are mostly local I would say.
They know their stuff.
I was just having fun with the thread. I work Data Centers small, medium and large. Different place everyday for the most part. Depends on what it is.
Some places are as small as two racks. Some are as large as 2 warehouses.
“They’d better check the rental and real estate listings then.”
Austin is expensive but real estate investment has outstanding returns.
The same is true for Austin and Texas.
Nashville and Austin are quite similar in that way.
Most cities with very high wages have commensurate housing costs.
TN has no payroll tax, it does have the Hall tax on investment income
“business and professional services” ?
Sorry folks, have to disagree.
Talk about OUTSOURCING, or H-1B inside-out-sourcing potential, or simple hiring proclivities of major IT and engineering companies . . .
Great for hi-tech folks. For skilled tradesmen, not so much.
Make it here, or tax it.
America needs to build stuff again.
Charlotte traffic is just insane.
I may get bummed about the trek to the factory office in the woods but mostly light traffic helps.
It’s not surprising that 44 percent of the cities are from Texas. I am surprised that California made 22 percent. It’s Silicon Valley, though. That hasn’t been killed - yet. The Austin-San Antonio corridor is making a play for high tech jobs. Even the Highway 290 Wine Trail is making a play on Napa Valley.
I think the manufacturing sector is still sagging a bit.
The majority of the jobs are created in exurbia.
No company in its right mind will go to a city populated by head-bangers, gangs, liberal dope smokers and welfare bums and expect to find a stable workforce and work environment.
Companies locate to areas where families live because companies can expect to find hard-working individuals who show up to work everyday and are committed to the work ethic and culture.
Families with children have been fleeing big, leftist cities by the tens of millions for decades because they found that leftist cities are not conducive to raising families or making money to raise those families.
These articles written by leftist city planners are Marxist slop to brush over the continued degeneracy and the failing of big cities across America.
Stay off of I77 if you can help it.
I trek to TN from time to time but drive up 16 to Newton.
Going to Columbia or Charleston is a different story.
I schedule away from rush hour.
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