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Listed below are US metro areas ranked by the popularity of jobs for Business Operations Specialists relative to the population of the city, as of 2006.

A Relative Popularity of 1.0 means that the city has an average number of the particular job, for its population. Higher numbers mean proportionally more jobs of that type.

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Metro Area	Jobs	Salary (2006)	Relative Popularity
ALABAMA
Huntsville	2,330	$72,580	1.6
Anniston	400	$55,700	1.3
Montgomery	870	$53,010	0.7
Birmingham	2,380	$66,140	0.6
Mobile	580	$53,850	0.5
Gadsden	70	$49,630	0.3
Decatur	120	$55,560	0.3
Tuscaloosa	140	$48,440	0.2
Dothan	70	$39,760	0.2
Florence	60	$50,890	0.2
ALASKA
Fairbanks	300	$68,940	1.4
Anchorage	1,450	$69,220	1.2
ARIZONA
Yuma	350	$53,610	0.9
Flagstaff	290	$46,390	0.8
Tucson	1,730	$58,230	0.6
Phoenix	7,610	$53,290	0.5
Prescott	110	$52,130	0.3
ARKANSAS
Pine Bluff	360	$46,170	1.7
Little Rock	2,800	$49,480	1.1
Hot Springs	110	$55,970	0.5
Jonesboro	150	$41,150	0.5
Fort Smith	370	$45,110	0.4
CALIFORNIA
Yuba City	1,080	$62,470	4.1
San Luis Obispo	2,220	$54,190	2.9
Hanford	600	$54,490	2.9
Sacramento	20,330	$52,300	2.8
Madera	570	$53,660	2.7
Redding	1,010	$60,330	2.1
Fresno	5,010	$57,270	2
El Centro	620	$50,920	1.9
San Francisco	14,080	$69,100	1.8
Oakland	14,080	$67,800	1.7
Chico	790	$43,230	1.5
San Jose	9,960	$70,580	1.4
Stockton	2,150	$60,900	1.3
San Diego	14,090	$56,650	1.3
Salinas	1,580	$50,840	1.3
Santa Rosa	1,950	$64,210	1.3
Oxnard	3,060	$64,640	1.3
Los Angeles	42,660	$60,590	1.3
Bakersfield	2,580	$64,490	1.3
Santa Ana	15,770	$63,620	1.3
Santa Barbara	1,600	$61,810	1.2
Napa	540	$53,560	1.2
Santa Cruz	740	$59,080	1.2
Vallejo	1,170	$54,300	1.2
Riverside	11,360	$59,440	1.1
Merced	290	$55,620	0.8
Modesto	910	$46,500	0.7
Visalia	630	$53,830	0.6
COLORADO
Boulder	2,420	$77,790	2.3
Colorado Springs	3,510	$70,610	1.8
Fort Collins	1,490	$53,320	1.7
Denver	14,030	$68,730	1.5
Grand Junction	320	$60,570	0.9
Pueblo	250	$57,460	0.8
Greeley	310	$58,000	0.6
CONNECTICUT
Hartford	3,560	$62,910	0.8
Bridgeport	2,080	$84,800	0.6
Norwich	540	$57,640	0.6
New Haven	1,130	$47,310	0.5
Danbury	140	$46,110	0.3
DELAWARE
Wilmington	1,640	$62,270	0.6
Dover	240	$57,050	0.6
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington	38,560	$78,490	2.1
FLORIDA
Fort Walton Beach	1,410	$63,900	2.5
Tallahassee	2,440	$49,050	2
Palm Bay	2,210	$61,340	1.5
Panama City	600	$54,110	1.3
Gainesville	910	$55,370	1.1
Jacksonville	5,020	$56,290	1.1
Pensacola	1,210	$51,590	1
Fort Lauderdale	5,850	$61,060	1
Miami	7,280	$59,730	1
West Palm Beach	3,700	$68,520	0.9
Orlando	6,850	$58,280	0.8
Tampa	7,890	$58,030	0.8
Sarasota	1,560	$53,550	0.7
Deltona	810	$59,580	0.7
Cape Coral	1,090	$53,900	0.7
Lakeland	990	$58,350	0.6
Ocala	430	$58,530	0.6
Punta Gorda	170	$48,510	0.6
Sebastian	190	$67,340	0.6
Naples	470	$74,520	0.5
Port St. Lucie	420	$54,090	0.5
GEORGIA
Warner Robins	1,880	$59,820	6.1
Hinesville	190	$55,790	3
Albany	380	$54,900	0.9
Atlanta	16,330	$60,550	0.9
Columbus	440	$56,990	0.6
Brunswick	130	$57,410	0.5
Valdosta	160	$50,760	0.5
Rome	120	$49,250	0.5
Macon	330	$53,250	0.5
Gainesville	170	$49,680	0.4
Savannah	410	$50,560	0.4
Augusta	570	$56,390	0.4
Athens	170	$51,510	0.3
Dalton	110	$56,190	0.2
HAWAII
Honolulu	3,450	$60,640	1
IDAHO
Pocatello	300	$40,520	1.5
Boise	2,830	$49,980	1.5
Lewiston	110	$124,630	0.8
Coeur d'Alene	230	$51,490	0.7
ILLINOIS
Springfield	1,580	$55,280	2.1
Waukegan	5,430	$66,610	1.9
Decatur	590	$54,010	1.8
Chicago	44,590	$67,150	1.5
Danville	230	$57,200	1.3
Champaign	800	$57,820	1.3
Rockford	1,120	$61,740	1
Peoria	1,170	$62,510	0.9
Kankakee	220	$52,810	0.8
INDIANA
Kokomo	210	$67,380	0.8
Indianapolis	5,280	$55,330	0.8
Fort Wayne	800	$52,610	0.5
Gary	950	$47,300	0.4
Columbus	90	$47,790	0.4
Terre Haute	150	$62,050	0.3
Evansville	420	$45,520	0.3
Bloomington	130	$41,350	0.3
South Bend	250	$50,390	0.2
Muncie	60	$42,820	0.2
Lafayette	90	$47,690	0.2
Elkhart	100	$33,050	0.1
IOWA
Davenport	2,350	$56,940	1.7
Cedar Rapids	1,340	$50,110	1.4
Des Moines	3,300	$52,220	1.4
Waterloo	600	$43,090	1
Dubuque	320	$41,090	0.9
Sioux City	410	$46,190	0.8
KANSAS
Topeka	1,190	$44,610	1.5
Lawrence	310	$50,370	1.1
Wichita	1,570	$50,100	0.7
KENTUCKY
Elizabethtown	330	$57,580	1.2
Bowling Green	210	$42,260	0.6
Louisville	2,810	$55,090	0.6
Lexington	940	$51,710	0.5
Owensboro	140	$52,110	0.5
LOUISIANA
Baton Rouge	2,580	$41,690	0.9
New Orleans	3,060	$53,140	0.9
Lake Charles	420	$40,200	0.7
Alexandria	240	$49,690	0.6
Lafayette	510	$50,970	0.5
Shreveport	550	$58,920	0.5
Monroe	210	$44,080	0.4
Houma	170	$50,390	0.3
MAINE
Portland	1,940	$60,230	1.3
Bangor	360	$47,280	0.8
Lewiston	160	$46,050	0.5
MARYLAND
Bethesda	7,310	$71,740	1.7
Cumberland	270	$48,440	1.2
Baltimore	9,480	$63,560	0.9
Hagerstown	310	$55,290	0.5
Salisbury	110	$42,760	0.3
MASSACHUSETTS
Haverhill	760	$52,730	1.4
Framingham	1,260	$63,860	1.1
Boston	14,450	$67,350	1.1
Lowell	920	$63,440	1
Lynn	520	$59,180	0.8
Lawrence	290	$47,160	0.8
Pittsfield	130	$58,920	0.6
Taunton	140	$58,140	0.5
Barnstable	360	$55,070	0.5
Springfield	1,040	$58,680	0.5
Brockton	270	$57,640	0.4
Worcester	710	$56,930	0.4
Leominster	100	$45,860	0.3
New Bedford	120	$50,950	0.3
MICHIGAN
Battle Creek	710	$61,420	2
Holland	1,230	$54,980	1.6
Ann Arbor	1,950	$64,360	1.5
Warren	12,540	$72,430	1.3
Grand Rapids	3,680	$46,140	1.2
Saginaw	590	$58,710	1
Jackson	370	$60,460	1
Bay City	190	$64,320	0.9
Kalamazoo	840	$48,790	0.8
Monroe	160	$49,980	0.7
Niles	280	$63,940	0.7
Muskegon	270	$47,320	0.7
MINNESOTA
Rochester	1,700	$46,040	3.2
Minneapolis	33,610	$53,800	2.3
Duluth	1,970	$45,050	2.1
St. Cloud	1,330	$44,100	1.9
MISSISSIPPI
Gulfport	760	$45,120	1.1
Pascagoula	240	$54,040	0.9
Jackson	1,160	$46,540	0.6
Hattiesburg	140	$36,270	0.4
MISSOURI
Jefferson City	680	$35,120	1.5
Kansas City	7,250	$63,510	0.9
St. Louis	8,700	$54,050	0.8
Columbia	340	$50,950	0.7
St. Joseph	160	$44,240	0.6
Springfield	350	$40,330	0.3
Joplin	100	$43,620	0.2
MONTANA
Great Falls	180	$51,160	0.9
Billings	380	$50,470	0.6
Missoula	130	$51,750	0.4
NEBRASKA
Lincoln	1,400	$50,720	1.2
Omaha	2,630	$54,700	0.7
NEVADA
Carson City	360	$55,220	1.9
Reno	970	$81,750	0.6
Las Vegas	3,080	$65,930	0.4
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Portsmouth	1,350	$55,410	3.6
Manchester	1,700	$53,550	2.3
Rochester	700	$47,450	2
Nashua	1,720	$52,800	1.7
NEW JERSEY
Trenton	5,740	$72,140	3.3
Newark	10,440	$64,230	1.3
Vineland	470	$50,160	1.1
Edison	9,130	$63,710	1.1
Camden	4,750	$55,570	1.1
Ocean City	250	$62,970	0.9
Atlantic City	780	$60,510	0.8
NEW MEXICO
Santa Fe	460	$53,180	1.1
Las Cruces	310	$53,780	0.7
Albuquerque	1,760	$55,660	0.6
Farmington	70	$42,520	0.2
NEW YORK
Albany	2,260	$54,870	0.7
New York	19,890	$69,030	0.5
Binghamton	300	$50,740	0.4
Buffalo	1,560	$57,940	0.4
Ithaca	70	$58,810	0.3
Rochester	1,030	$58,380	0.3
Nassau	2,500	$65,050	0.3
Utica	230	$50,580	0.2
Kingston	90	$58,820	0.2
Syracuse	510	$56,300	0.2
Elmira	30	$58,670	0.1
NORTH CAROLINA
Durham	3,980	$66,960	2.1
Fayetteville	1,240	$57,240	1.4
Jacksonville	290	$50,820	1.2
Raleigh	4,000	$61,100	1.1
Burlington	330	$47,340	0.9
Greensboro	2,370	$50,680	0.8
Winston-Salem	1,310	$48,820	0.8
Charlotte	4,970	$59,780	0.8
Greenville	280	$63,840	0.6
Wilmington	540	$50,010	0.5
Goldsboro	130	$47,020	0.5
Rocky Mount	160	$52,440	0.4
Hickory	330	$52,810	0.3
NORTH DAKOTA
Fargo	890	$48,540	1.1
Grand Forks	360	$42,810	1.1
Bismarck	200	$54,880	0.5
OHIO
Columbus	11,390	$52,190	1.6
Dayton	4,690	$59,110	1.5
Cleveland	10,760	$52,240	1.3
Lima	410	$44,400	1.1
Cincinnati	8,770	$55,540	1.1
Akron	2,610	$47,750	1
Toledo	2,320	$46,050	0.9
Mansfield	340	$41,080	0.9
Canton	1,110	$32,890	0.8
Sandusky	180	$49,480	0.8
Youngstown	1,380	$40,740	0.8
Springfield	170	$47,830	0.5
OKLAHOMA
Lawton	280	$52,570	1.3
Oklahoma City	2,580	$61,330	0.6
Tulsa	860	$54,080	0.3
OREGON
Corvallis	280	$44,460	1.8
Portland	9,450	$53,000	1.2
Salem	1,230	$48,120	1.2
Eugene	870	$46,750	0.8
Medford	370	$46,110	0.6
Bend	260	$47,130	0.6
PENNSYLVANIA
Harrisburg	3,200	$64,190	1.4
Philadelphia	10,900	$70,470	0.7
Lebanon	140	$56,780	0.5
Pittsburgh	3,690	$59,280	0.4
Allentown	1,030	$66,710	0.4
Erie	370	$61,700	0.4
Reading	400	$62,090	0.3
York	440	$62,110	0.3
Williamsport	100	$51,060	0.3
Scranton	570	$55,850	0.3
Altoona	120	$39,550	0.3
Lancaster	360	$53,720	0.2
RHODE ISLAND
Providence	1,990	$56,620	0.5
SOUTH CAROLINA
Columbia	1,890	$59,330	0.7
Charleston	1,260	$56,700	0.6
Sumter	120	$49,940	0.6
Greenville	820	$51,200	0.4
Myrtle Beach	210	$34,640	0.2
Anderson	70	$44,960	0.2
Spartanburg	130	$52,360	0.2
SOUTH DAKOTA
Rapid City	140	$55,770	0.4
Sioux Falls	120	$57,500	0.1
TENNESSEE
Memphis	6,780	$71,800	1.4
Clarksville	320	$52,970	0.6
Nashville	3,140	$62,860	0.5
Chattanooga	930	$62,490	0.5
Knoxville	1,280	$60,200	0.5
Kingsport	330	$40,920	0.4
Jackson	130	$51,400	0.4
Johnson City	140	$50,880	0.3
Cleveland	50	$47,870	0.2
TEXAS
Killeen	1,210	$54,830	1.5
Midland	510	$76,820	1.4
Texarkana	470	$50,600	1.3
Corpus Christi	1,430	$55,860	1.1
Austin	5,560	$65,460	1
College Station	490	$49,100	1
San Antonio	5,740	$58,170	0.9
Dallas	14,940	$63,290	0.9
Fort Worth	5,710	$58,630	0.9
El Paso	1,480	$55,620	0.8
Laredo	400	$46,280	0.8
Houston	14,650	$66,500	0.8
Victoria	220	$59,500	0.8
San Angelo	180	$45,140	0.7
Odessa	230	$47,120	0.7
Waco	430	$49,350	0.6
Abilene	260	$46,410	0.6
Wichita Falls	200	$52,840	0.5
Amarillo	330	$54,310	0.5
Beaumont	510	$59,200	0.4
Longview	270	$41,780	0.4
Tyler	260	$43,190	0.4
McAllen	600	$43,390	0.4
Brownsville	260	$52,470	0.3
Lubbock	230	$56,170	0.3
UTAH
Ogden	2,070	$58,960	1.5
Provo	840	$42,750	0.7
Salt Lake City	3,080	$51,370	0.7
Logan	120	$40,280	0.5
St. George	100	$45,720	0.3
VERMONT
Burlington	300	$63,590	0.4
VIRGINIA
Winchester	380	$51,850	1.1
Charlottesville	520	$51,250	0.9
Virginia Beach	5,310	$60,060	0.9
Richmond	4,150	$59,410	0.9
Blacksburg	260	$46,810	0.7
Harrisonburg	190	$42,520	0.6
Roanoke	630	$51,580	0.5
Lynchburg	320	$50,990	0.5
Danville	70	$45,320	0.3
WASHINGTON
Olympia	1,910	$64,750	2.9
Bremerton	960	$66,030	1.7
Seattle	13,940	$66,260	1.3
Kennewick	590	$64,670	1
Tacoma	1,740	$62,960	0.9
Spokane	1,220	$53,380	0.8
Bellingham	420	$50,640	0.8
Wenatchee	160	$58,420	0.6
Yakima	270	$53,020	0.5
Longview	90	$55,330	0.4
Mount Vernon	120	$52,620	0.4
WEST VIRGINIA
Parkersburg	480	$53,030	1
Weirton	200	$43,390	0.7
Charleston	710	$49,050	0.7
Morgantown	200	$52,960	0.6
Wheeling	270	$37,200	0.6
Huntington	470	$47,490	0.6
WISCONSIN
Oshkosh	1,070	$53,570	1.8
Madison	4,260	$58,540	1.7
Eau Claire	770	$52,000	1.4
Fond du Lac	340	$45,260	1.3
La Crosse	580	$48,690	1.2
Racine	620	$48,870	1.2
Sheboygan	430	$40,360	1.1
Milwaukee	7,360	$58,500	1.1
Appleton	880	$52,340	1.1
Green Bay	1,280	$56,270	1
Janesville	400	$40,170	0.8
Wausau	370	$55,190	0.8
WYOMING
Casper	290	$54,710	1.3
Cheyenne	290	$53,760	1.1

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