Sometimes you just need to shake things up a bit to pull yourself out of a rut. There are many ways to do that like going to a Vegas club in a disguise, changing careers, or even just a changing your scenery. Come to Dallas, Johnny.
Well, if you’re looking to relocate, WalletHub, a financial management resource, put together a list of the best and worst cities to find a job in 2016.
WalletHub analyzed the 150 most populated cities for “Job Market” and “Socioeconomic Environment.” For Job Market, metrics included job opportunities, employment growth, monthly median starting salary, unemployment rate, industry variety, full-time employment, percentage of employed residents living under the poverty line, and disability friendliness.
Socio-economic metrics included median annual income, time spent working & commuting, benefits, housing affordability, annual transportation costs, crime rate, number of families, singles, and recreation.
It’s no shocker that Texas has 3 in the top 5. But I’m not real sure I’d recommend anyone drop everything and move to Plano or Irving. Maybe get a place in Uptown and brave the commute, because Irving and Plano are not exactly ideal spots for a twenty-something looking to dominate. As for Austin, I can confirm it is a phenomenal place to call home. It’d be hypocritical if I told you not to move here, as I’ve only been here for one year. It is really crowded, though. If you move here, stay on the east side. They love craft brews.
Best Cities To Find A Job
1. Plano, TX
2. Overland Park, KS
3. Austin, TX
4. Irving, TX
5. Salt Lake City, UT
6. Des Moines, IA
7. Irvine, CA
8. Madison, WI
9. Sioux Falls, SD
10. Omaha, NE
The Absolute Worst
141. San Bernadino, CA
142. Hialeah, FL
143. Brownsville, TX
144. Ontario, CA
145. Newark, NJ
146. Providence, RI
147. Modesto, CA
148. Detroit, MI
149. Fresno, CA
150. Stockton, CA
Just stay away. Hold your ground until something in the top 50 comes available. Newark? Come on.
They even came through with this dope interactive map, which is a sentence I never thought I’d type. See if your current domicile is a thriving bastion of young professionals.
There you have it. It’s still early in the game, so you’ve got some time to call an audible..
[via WalletHub]
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No surprises here about Newark. No one who lives there is looking for a job anyway. They’re all gainfully employed in the “pharmaceutical industry.”
So in short, move to an area ran by Republicans, got it.
I’ll take a hard, hard pass on Iowa, Kansas and South Dakota.
Overland Park is a really nice burb in Kansas City; you just have to never leave the city or realize you’re surrounded by a 400 mile radius of nothingness.
Moved to OP 9 months ago. Nice place, but I prefer the nothingness outside of the KC metro.
Can confirm about Irvine CA, it’s continuing to grow quickly and it’s in a prime spot close to the beach with a lot to do.
Yup can confirm as well. It’s starting to have more to do than go to church and be a soccer mom, and is pretty affluent.
Can also confirm that Stockton, Ontario, San Bernardino, etc are as awful as this list makes them out to be.
Ignorant question from someone not living in Texas; what industry is in Plano that it received such a high score?
Toyota moving their headquarters there is your short answer.
I suppose that would get the job done.
Frito Lay and Dr. Pepper are HQ’d there for some reason.
Just landed a job in Sioux Falls Sd. Sioux Falls has advantageous tax bennys for business
No state income tax either!!
Cities in Wisconsin, South Dakota, and Nebraska all rounding out the top 10? Error?
Afraid not. I can confirm these cities are phenomenal for young professionals, as long as you can handle the weather. Sioux Falls and Omaha especially I would recommend to any one.
Omaha is losing Conagra so it will be interesting to see if that changes anything.
Conagra is eliminating about 1400 jobs out of 400k+ population. While some are good gigs there’s plenty of jobs available. Omaha a highly underrated town. Winters suck but they suck in Chicago as well and I’ve lived in both. Cost of living FTW.
I live in Maine and it’s not ideal for post grads but was lucky enough to find good work. Winters suck as much as any of those places but at least I have the ocean to remind me there is indeed life near me when it’s colder than a witches tit out mid January.
The Dakotas are in an oil boom. They actually have way more jobs than people to fill them.
That has nothing to do with Sioux Falls though.
Madison is awesome minus the whole winter thing.
Uh I live in Austin and there are no fucking jobs here unless you’re in the tech industry. And even then it will probably be a contract position that does not pay enough to cover rent for your $1,000/month one-bedroom apartment.
Only $1000 a month? Tell me more.
Just moved from Plano, TX to Tulsa, OK for my fiance’s job. Being in the staffing industry, I must say it has been a rude awakening going from “the best city for finding a job” to Oklahoma. My new office is a lot….slower….. I can’t wait for us to move back. I hope it’s still easy to find a job there when the time comes.
I spent 3 months in Tulsa this summer and had a pretty good time on the weekends. Got relocated to Southwestern, OK, and it’s a whole different/worse ball game.
Austin is a great place to live if you can deal with the fact that you’re living in Texas. I personally could never live in a red state. The attack on women’s health in Texas is too real.
Good thing you don’t care then.
I can’t deal with the fixation with my username. This site makes you get one in order to comment. It’s a throwaway. Calm down. Also v sad lolz that women’s health care gets down voted here.
That’s what’s waiting for you in Texas, guys! Wear a suit to your soul sucking job with white guys with beer guts that love America and guns and women (when they’re not costing them tax dollars over silly things like breast exams, abortions, and cervical cancer screenings, of course!)
Shouldn’t you be protesting on a liberal arts campus somewhere ?