Best Cities for Jobs 2013

Our Best Cities for Job Growth 2013 Rankings are a performance measure of job growth over the recent, medium, and longer term. Read more about how we calculate the rankings.

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Best Cities for Manufacturing Jobs

Best Cities for Information Sector Jobs

Best Cities for Jobs in Finance Industries

The Cities That Are Stealing Finance Jobs From Wall Street

by Joel Kotkin and Michael Shires 05/31/2013

Over the past 60 years, financial services’ share of the economy has exploded from 2.5% to 8.5% of GDP. Even if you believe, as we do, that financialization is not a healthy trend, the sector boasts a high number of relatively well-paid jobs that most cities would welcome.

Yet our list of the fastest-growing finance economies is a surprising one that includes many “second-tier” cities that most would not associate with banking. read more »

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The Cities Winning The Battle For Information Jobs

by Joel Kotkin and Michael Shires 05/23/2013

The information industry has long been a darling of the media — no surprise since the media constitutes a major part of this economic sector, which includes publishing, software, entertainment and data processing. Yet until the last few years, it has been a sector in overall decline, with almost 850,000 jobs lost since 2001. The biggest losses have been in telecommunications (half a million jobs gone since 2001) and print publishing (books, newspapers, magazines), which lost 290,000 jobs — 40% of its 2001 job base. read more »