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Job Popularity in Metro Areas for Fire Fighters

The map below shows some metro areas where the profession is more popular, compared to the size of the population, than in the rest of the country. A table below the map shows job popularity and salaries across the US.

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Metro Areas Rated for Popularity (as of 2008) for:
Fire Fighters

Listed below are metro areas ranked by the popularity of jobs for Fire Fighters relative to the population of the city, as of 2008.

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

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Metro Area	Jobs	Salary (2008)	Relative Popularity
ALABAMA
Anniston	180	$36,600	2.3
Birmingham	1,400	$37,640	1.4
Huntsville	370		1
ALASKA
Fairbanks	110	$44,130	2.1
Anchorage	410	$48,420	1.4
ARIZONA
Prescott	590	$37,690	5.6
Kingman	440	$34,890	5.2
Flagstaff	190	$38,800	2.1
Yuma	180	$35,780	1.8
Tucson	870	$40,220	1.3
Phoenix	3,160	$44,510	0.9
ARKANSAS
Pine Bluff	140	$35,420	2.7
Fort Smith	380	$30,460	1.8
Hot Springs	100	$29,910	1.7
Fayetteville	580	$36,660	1.6
Little Rock	860	$38,360	1.4
CALIFORNIA
Yuba City	160	$55,330	2.6
Chico	300	$37,600	2.5
Redding	280	$33,070	2.5
San Luis Obispo	390	$54,290	2.2
Salinas	570	$54,210	2
Santa Rosa	680	$45,340	2
Napa	210	$41,810	1.9
El Centro	140	$39,390	1.7
Sacramento	2,610	$47,960	1.6
Modesto	460	$48,470	1.5
Santa Cruz	210	$45,410	1.4
Riverside	3,260	$44,450	1.3
Vallejo	250	$78,430	1.2
Stockton	420	$58,450	1.1
Visalia	230	$42,210	1
Oakland	1,500	$85,800	0.8
San Diego	1,820	$56,520	0.7
Bakersfield	320	$52,690	0.7
Fresno	380	$41,680	0.6
Santa Ana	1,760	$61,030	0.6
San Jose	960	$68,000	0.5
COLORADO
Fort Collins	280	$50,920	1.3
Boulder	310	$49,930	1.1
Colorado Springs	490		1.1
Denver	1,930	$60,980	0.8
CONNECTICUT
Waterbury	440	$35,020	3.8
Norwich	230	$44,930	1
Bridgeport	780	$54,690	1
New Haven	470	$54,340	0.9
Hartford	850	$56,460	0.8
DELAWARE
Wilmington	370	$50,830	0.6
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington	3,970	$54,770	0.9
FLORIDA
Palm Coast	120	$25,240	6.2
Palm Bay	910	$42,780	2.5
Cape Coral	890	$52,020	2.3
Fort Walton Beach	300	$38,080	2.3
Panama City	250	$29,490	2.1
West Palm Beach	2,110	$59,930	2.1
Deltona	570	$36,710	2
Sarasota	870	$41,940	1.8
Fort Lauderdale	2,420	$55,690	1.7
Orlando	3,030	$36,860	1.5
Naples	310	$52,560	1.5
Jacksonville	1,470		1.3
Tallahassee	340	$39,690	1.2
Lakeland	330	$35,080	0.9
Tampa	1,990	$41,210	0.9
GEORGIA
Albany	230	$30,650	2.2
Savannah	500	$35,760	1.9
Augusta	480	$33,920	1.3
Dalton	140	$30,000	1.1
Atlanta	4,390	$37,530	1
HAWAII
Honolulu	1,180	$49,270	1.4
IDAHO
Boise	380	$49,260	0.8
ILLINOIS
Kankakee	320	$41,600	5.3
Springfield	350	$35,170	1.9
Chicago	12,090	$55,980	1.7
Rockford	450	$49,980	1.6
Champaign	260	$48,810	1.6
Bloomington	120		1
INDIANA
Anderson	170	$38,930	2.7
Kokomo	130	$35,770	2.3
Terre Haute	270	$38,090	2.3
Bloomington	260	$35,960	2.2
South Bend	310	$38,700	1.3
Indianapolis	2,100	$46,800	1.2
Evansville	360		1.1
Elkhart	240	$37,260	1
Gary	530	$38,870	1
IOWA
Davenport	360	$35,990	1.1
Des Moines	380	$33,290	0.6
KANSAS
Wichita	630	$34,060	1.1
Topeka	120	$19,170	0.6
KENTUCKY
Elizabethtown	160	$31,530	2.3
Lexington	720	$26,940	1.6
Louisville	1,200	$36,340	1
LOUISIANA
Monroe	320	$22,360	2.4
Shreveport	690	$38,250	2.2
Lake Charles	250	$24,990	1.7
New Orleans	1,360	$29,300	1.4
Baton Rouge	300	$31,560	0.4
MAINE
Bangor	230	$30,460	2.1
Portland	580	$34,490	1.6
MARYLAND
Bethesda	1,630	$54,340	1.5
Hagerstown	120	$41,100	0.7
MASSACHUSETTS
Barnstable	720	$46,320	4.1
New Bedford	390	$42,300	3.6
Taunton	260	$37,850	3.4
Leominster	280	$45,010	3.4
Haverhill	340	$43,320	2.6
Worcester	1,070	$43,560	2.3
Lawrence	210	$43,240	2.2
Springfield	1,200	$46,920	2.2
Lowell	420	$54,460	2
Boston	5,850	$55,340	1.8
Framingham	450	$46,440	1.5
Brockton	190	$53,940	1.2
MICHIGAN
Muskegon	180	$30,870	1.8
Battle Creek	100	$37,420	1.3
Niles	120	$34,450	1.1
Detroit	1,400	$47,530	1
Ann Arbor	260	$49,830	0.9
Lansing	290	$39,710	0.8
Warren	1,580	$46,180	0.7
Grand Rapids	460	$46,890	0.6
Holland	100	$39,540	0.6
Saginaw	70	$38,850	0.5
Flint	120	$27,290	0.5
MINNESOTA
Duluth	440	$33,840	1.9
St. Cloud	240	$30,040	1.3
Minneapolis	3,110	$35,000	0.9
MISSISSIPPI
Gulfport	550	$36,700	2.9
Pascagoula	200	$27,470	2.6
Jackson	370	$35,230	0.8
MISSOURI
St. Joseph	130	$30,370	1.6
St. Louis	3,050	$50,620	1.2
Kansas City	2,300	$44,400	1.2
Springfield	400	$24,090	1.1
Joplin	140	$28,510	1
Columbia	70	$32,650	0.5
MONTANA
Missoula	170	$45,220	2
Great Falls	70	$43,760	1.3
NEBRASKA
Omaha	600	$53,900	0.7
NEVADA
Reno	400	$47,660	1.1
Las Vegas	1,360	$58,660	0.8
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Portsmouth	130	$44,720	1.4
Nashua	280	$43,290	1.1
NEW JERSEY
Atlantic City	390	$67,680	1.5
Trenton	530	$55,300	1.3
Newark	1,540	$77,440	0.8
Vineland	70	$44,230	0.7
Camden	480	$59,700	0.5
Edison	860	$60,550	0.4
NEW MEXICO
Las Cruces	120	$34,400	1.2
Albuquerque	850	$34,260	1.2
NEW YORK
Poughkeepsie	360	$54,910	0.8
Binghamton	150		0.8
Syracuse	390	$45,320	0.7
Rochester	620	$53,460	0.7
Albany	470	$48,660	0.6
Utica	120	$47,110	0.5
Nassau	100	$62,310
NORTH CAROLINA
Fayetteville	520	$31,010	2.4
Asheville	540	$29,280	1.7
Hickory	480	$27,450	1.6
Durham	810	$34,580	1.6
Wilmington	410	$31,380	1.6
Charlotte	2,500	$35,910	1.5
Burlington	140	$35,140	1.4
Winston-Salem	460	$27,040	1.2
Raleigh	990	$33,860	1
Greensboro	700	$30,650	1
NORTH DAKOTA
Grand Forks	110	$38,760	1.4
Fargo	120	$42,110	0.6
OHIO
Springfield	310	$30,950	4
Canton	900	$31,080	2.9
Cleveland	4,620	$42,470	2.3
Columbus	3,900	$47,240	2.2
Dayton	1,590	$34,930	2.2
Cincinnati	3,760	$39,450	1.9
Lima	160	$34,880	1.9
Akron	1,110	$41,430	1.8
Youngstown	680	$35,180	1.6
Toledo	510	$37,200	0.9
OKLAHOMA
Tulsa	1,290	$40,420	1.6
Oklahoma City	1,580	$50,200	1.5
OREGON
Bend	180	$56,970	1.5
Medford	200	$51,650	1.4
Portland	1,640	$55,690	0.8
Eugene	200	$46,760	0.7
Salem	200	$48,770	0.7
PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia	2,530	$52,450	0.7
Allentown	350	$44,480	0.6
Pittsburgh	1,120	$47,730	0.5
Scranton	200	$44,200	0.4
Harrisburg	110	$35,030	0.2
RHODE ISLAND
Providence	2,000	$48,350	1.9
SOUTH CAROLINA
Charleston	1,070	$30,070	2
Myrtle Beach	390	$28,290	1.9
Sumter	80	$26,420	1.5
Spartanburg	310	$27,780	1.4
Greenville	660	$31,980	1.2
Florence	120	$25,300	0.8
Columbia	380	$37,380	0.6
TENNESSEE
Clarksville	220	$37,800	1.7
Johnson City	210	$33,050	1.6
Jackson	130	$33,600	1.4
Memphis	1,170	$41,440	1
Knoxville	520	$36,050	0.8
Kingsport	160	$31,840	0.8
TEXAS
Wichita Falls	290	$46,390	3
Sherman	170	$36,490	2.7
Texarkana	200	$41,640	2.2
Killeen	420	$38,490	2
Longview	280	$40,510	1.7
College Station	220	$45,290	1.7
Brownsville	360	$36,970	1.6
San Antonio	2,400	$47,000	1.5
Beaumont	370		1.3
Dallas	5,180	$54,220	1.3
Fort Worth	1,950	$44,740	1.2
Houston	5,770	$44,600	1.2
McAllen	320	$33,700	0.8
UTAH
Ogden	400	$33,610	1.1
Provo	320	$32,420	1.1
Logan	70		0.9
St. George	70	$26,980	0.9
Salt Lake City	960	$42,240	0.8
VERMONT
Burlington	140	$34,570	0.7
VIRGINIA
Virginia Beach	2,880	$41,810	2
Roanoke	490	$39,420	1.7
Richmond	1,320	$47,160	1.2
Charlottesville	150	$35,840	0.9
WASHINGTON
Bremerton	500	$53,740	3.5
Wenatchee	220	$41,930	3.4
Tacoma	1,060	$60,010	2.1
Olympia	310	$61,050	1.9
Kennewick	290	$60,600	1.9
Mount Vernon	130	$49,900	1.8
Yakima	240	$45,190	1.7
Longview	80	$62,610	1.6
Spokane	520	$60,080	1.4
Bellingham	170	$53,770	1.2
Seattle	3,220	$66,180	1.2
WEST VIRGINIA
Wheeling	170	$22,630	1.6
Parkersburg	170	$41,790	1.4
Huntington	150	$25,470	0.7
WISCONSIN
Wausau	220	$31,160	1.9
Green Bay	510	$37,980	1.7
Milwaukee	2,490	$44,650	1.5
Eau Claire	180	$30,840	1.4
La Crosse	150	$41,930	1.3
Appleton	250	$36,030	1.2
Janesville	130	$35,400	1.2
Oshkosh	170	$28,610	1.2
Madison	710	$36,950	1.1

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Metro Areas Rated for Popularity (as of 2008) for:Fire Fighters

ALABAMA

ALASKA

ARIZONA

ARKANSAS

CALIFORNIA

COLORADO

CONNECTICUT

DELAWARE

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

FLORIDA

GEORGIA

HAWAII

IDAHO

ILLINOIS

INDIANA

IOWA

KANSAS

KENTUCKY

LOUISIANA

MAINE

MARYLAND

MASSACHUSETTS

MICHIGAN

MINNESOTA

MISSISSIPPI

MISSOURI

MONTANA

NEBRASKA

NEVADA

NEW HAMPSHIRE

NEW JERSEY

NEW MEXICO

NEW YORK

NORTH CAROLINA

NORTH DAKOTA

OHIO

OKLAHOMA

OREGON

PENNSYLVANIA

RHODE ISLAND

SOUTH CAROLINA

TENNESSEE

TEXAS

UTAH

VERMONT

VIRGINIA

WASHINGTON

WEST VIRGINIA

WISCONSIN