The 25 best cities for job seekers right now

Business Insider ^ | 05/20/2015 | JACQUELYN SMITH

[SeekAndFind]

If you've been unsuccessful in your job search, it might be time to start looking in other parts of the country.

But before you pack up and go, you'll want to consider which cities have the best career opportunities, the happiest workers, and the lowest cost of living.

To help, online careers community Glassdoor just released its latest report on the 25 best cities for jobs right now.

These metro areas stand out for having the highest Glassdoor "Job Score," which was determined by weighting three factors equally: how easy it is to get a job (hiring opportunity), how affordable it is to live there (cost of living), and how satisfied employees are working there (job satisfaction), on a five-point scale.

25. Nashville, Tennessee

Glassdoor Job Score: 3.1

Number of job openings: 27,850

Median base salary: $41,600

Median home value: $176,700

24. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Glassdoor Job Score: 3.1

Number of job openings: 29,456

Median base salary: $43,000

Median home value: $124,500

Job satisfaction rating: 3.1

23. Richmond, Virginia

Glassdoor Job Score: 3.2

Number of job openings: 17,933

Median base salary: $45,000

Median home value: $186,300

Job satisfaction rating: 3.2

[SeekAndFind]

Click here for the full methodology.

[Batman11]

PFL

[Vigilanteman]

Not surprised to see Pittsburgh at #24. Housing is among the most affordable in the country and the city is fairly safe if you know which neighborhoods to avoid.

There is a lot happening here due to nearby natural gas development. It remains to be seen if the legislature will allow our new Red governor to kill it.

I am surprised to see Baltimore at #22. Bad neighborhoods are the rule rather than the exception. Other than a few nice tourist areas, most of the city is a $h*+h0l3.

[buwaya]

Baltimore (and MD in general) is propped up by the DC Federal job market.
Same with VA.

[Buckeye McFrog]

For the first time in my adult life, Pittsburgh is not the WORST place to find a job.

I was not born here. Neither were my children. Though I and my parents grew-up here. Pittsburgh has a regular twenty-year down cycle where there simply aren’t any jobs here. But people come back.

[CharlesOConnell]

In the words of the next POTUS, WHAT DOES IT MATTER?

People are only limited by the glass ceiling of their self-concepts.

Free your mind, your [fanny] will follow.

[Vigilanteman]

All things considered, I'm happy that the area remains nice enough that people actually want to come back. There are a few places I've lived which have been better but there are a lot more I've been which have been far, far worse.

Even the Democrats here are closer to normal than elsewhere in the country . . . and more reasonable in their level of graft and corruption than, say, California or New York.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: In the words of the next POTUS

GOD FORBID !!!!

[Buckeye McFrog]

I’ve done Flint, Michigan. I’ve done Toledo.
Pittsburgh looks marvelous by comparison.

I see where Columbus is #13, another place where I
have spent some time. While the job growth is there
it’s crime stats have become frighteningly Detroit-like
in recent years.

[bolobaby]

Baltimore! LOL!

Shows you what this listmaker knows.

[arthurus]

I guess we're talking about desk and sales jobs. If wage jobs are the subject then Panama City Florida ought to be on that list. The Shipyard here will hire you if you can breathe without gasping and can be trained. Hang around for a couple of years and you will have a trade, welder, electrician, rigger, or one of several other things. Show some aptitude for management and become a supervisor or even a corporate employee. Wages are good in relation to cost-of-living hereabouts and if you, again, hang with it three years you can take your trade to Louisiana or Texas and make considerably higher wages.

It is really good for ex felons. There are many. They learn how to punch a clock, not mouth off at supervisors and get to work on time, keep drugs out of their systems, only drink on weekends- unless they are working overtime on weekends- and, for many, it's a good feeling to get a solid paycheck every week.

I have been a security guard there for several years and have seen how it works. It is the best prison rehab outfit in the country, and they are always looking for employees as their contracts expand. The place is becoming a LARGE shipbuilding company.

[EQAndyBuzz]

San Antonio medical jobs are booming. You can walk into a hospital and have a job within a week.

[DoodleDawg]

We’re number 2! We’re number 2!

[Mad Dawgg]

"I am surprised to see Baltimore at #22."

Normally they wouldn't make the list but they added a few Jobs Title to the criteria like "rabble-rouser" "mob instigator" and "Community Organizer" and they jumped immediately into the top 25.

[setha]

Even if you factor out South Columbus? That’s about the worst of the city that I can recall. On the other hand, it does have the German District which isn’t too bad.

As for work, that’s more likely to be in the suburbs that are next to the outer loop of 270 (Dublin, Worthington, Whitehall, Hilliard, etc.) than downtown proper.

[Enlightened1]

Raleigh, NC (Part of the Triangle)#1 is no surprise.

[Rodamala]

I am pretty sure that if you take the number of openings and multiply by the average base salary... Washington D.C. would be #1 for the total available money.

[Biggirl]

She will not be the next POTUS and you can take it to the bank.

[humblegunner]

You also said she wouldn’t run.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3155779/posts?page=19#19

Should we take that to the bank, too?