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Job Popularity in Metro Areas for Healthcare Practitioners And Technical Workers

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:
Healthcare Practitioners And Technical Workers

Listed below are metro areas ranked by the popularity of jobs for Healthcare Practitioners And Technical Workers 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
Florence	50		3
Mobile	110	$26,670	1.7
Tuscaloosa	50	$35,570	1.6
Birmingham	310	$45,670	1.6
Huntsville	70	$26,880	0.9
Montgomery	50		0.8
ALASKA
Anchorage	120	$57,330	2.1
ARIZONA
Tucson	430	$31,220	3.2
Phoenix	870	$36,610	1.3
ARKANSAS
Little Rock	200	$38,530	1.6
CALIFORNIA
Madera	100	$69,640	8.8
Sacramento	800	$82,710	2.4
Fresno	280	$64,080	2.3
Oakland	670	$70,040	1.7
Santa Barbara	90	$96,030	1.5
San Jose	500	$70,980	1.5
San Diego	710	$70,330	1.4
San Francisco	510	$91,450	1.4
Bakersfield	100	$67,160	1
Riverside	490	$61,290	1
Santa Rosa	60	$80,560	0.9
Santa Ana	510	$76,440	0.9
Visalia	40	$68,710	0.8
Oxnard	50		0.5
COLORADO
Fort Collins	50	$45,690	1.2
Colorado Springs	60	$35,400	0.7
Denver	220	$62,940	0.5
CONNECTICUT
Waterbury	40	$60,890	1.8
New Haven	140	$78,160	1.4
Hartford	80	$79,410	0.4
Bridgeport	50	$53,610	0.3
DELAWARE
Wilmington	90	$51,050	0.7
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington	1,140	$57,940	1.3
FLORIDA
Tallahassee	60	$49,770	1
Tampa	360	$35,050	0.8
Sarasota	70	$24,640	0.7
Jacksonville	110	$37,300	0.5
Orlando	180	$37,380	0.5
Miami	170	$39,370	0.5
Cape Coral	30	$51,560	0.4
Fort Lauderdale	50	$42,830	0.2
GEORGIA
Savannah	50	$71,450	0.9
Atlanta	710	$40,920	0.8
Augusta	50	$65,290	0.7
IDAHO
Idaho Falls	90	$47,050	5.9
ILLINOIS
Springfield	140	$64,310	3.9
Chicago	3,610	$51,270	2.5
INDIANA
Indianapolis	1,780	$43,120	5.3
Bloomington	50	$32,520	2.2
Terre Haute	40	$47,260	1.7
South Bend	30	$42,520	0.6
Gary	60	$43,980	0.6
IOWA
Des Moines	260	$42,430	2.2
Cedar Rapids	90	$29,880	1.9
KANSAS
Topeka	170	$47,640	4.4
Wichita	90	$43,200	0.8
KENTUCKY
Lexington	140	$42,790	1.6
Louisville	260	$39,190	1.1
LOUISIANA
Alexandria	90	$52,400	4.6
Baton Rouge	410	$29,530	3
New Orleans	230	$44,930	1.2
Lafayette	50	$45,220	1
Houma	30	$52,630	0.9
MAINE
Bangor	50	$53,940	2.4
MARYLAND
Bethesda	830	$88,880	3.9
Baltimore	860	$60,430	1.8
Hagerstown	30	$54,540	0.9
MASSACHUSETTS
Worcester	50	$49,350	0.6
Boston	260	$73,490	0.4
MICHIGAN
Kalamazoo	130	$50,260	2.7
Saginaw	60	$30,130	2.3
Grand Rapids	190	$42,770	1.4
Flint	60	$51,780	1.2
Lansing	80	$53,570	1.2
Detroit	290	$50,610	1.1
Warren	430	$43,140	1
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis	1,220	$53,080	1.8
St. Cloud	30		0.9
Duluth	30	$59,450	0.7
MISSISSIPPI
Gulfport	40	$29,330	1.1
Jackson	70	$42,130	0.8
MISSOURI
Kansas City	460	$50,630	1.2
St. Louis	430	$54,660	0.9
Springfield	40	$80,870	0.6
NEBRASKA
Omaha	70	$72,390	0.4
NEVADA
Reno	40	$52,310	0.5
Las Vegas	170	$46,240	0.5
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Manchester	120	$63,440	3.3
Nashua	100	$47,780	2.1
Rochester	30	$64,400	1.6
NEW JERSEY
Trenton	50	$72,790	0.6
Newark	130	$76,580	0.3
Edison	80	$76,940	0.2
NEW MEXICO
Santa Fe	170	$24,710	8.1
Albuquerque	480	$32,000	3.3
Las Cruces	60		3
NEW YORK
Syracuse	80	$47,680	0.7
Buffalo	100	$68,710	0.5
New York	770	$67,340	0.4
Albany	60	$73,400	0.4
Poughkeepsie	30	$74,930	0.3
Nassau	140	$101,360	0.3
NORTH CAROLINA
Goldsboro	50	$31,050	4.2
Asheville	210	$35,940	3.3
Durham	310	$45,980	3.1
Raleigh	530	$40,860	2.8
Winston-Salem	200	$42,790	2.6
Greenville	60	$49,800	2.5
Fayetteville	90	$38,600	2.1
Charlotte	590	$47,620	1.8
Wilmington	80	$45,770	1.6
Hickory	70	$34,540	1.2
Greensboro	120	$40,730	0.9
NORTH DAKOTA
Fargo	50	$39,050	1.2
OHIO
Cincinnati	550	$48,260	1.4
Cleveland	350	$44,060	0.9
Toledo	80	$48,840	0.7
Columbus	120	$54,890	0.3
Akron	40	$37,860	0.3
OKLAHOMA
Oklahoma City	50	$33,050	0.2
OREGON
Medford	100	$42,260	3.5
Portland	300	$58,700	0.8
PENNSYLVANIA
Pittsburgh	1,240	$49,650	2.9
Philadelphia	1,810	$46,220	2.6
Allentown	240	$35,480	1.9
Scranton	180	$27,950	1.9
Harrisburg	170	$39,680	1.5
Erie	40		0.9
Lancaster	60	$52,480	0.7
TENNESSEE
Johnson City	60	$27,560	2.4
Knoxville	290	$44,640	2.4
Memphis	370	$41,400	1.6
Chattanooga	130	$44,360	1.5
Kingsport	60	$35,850	1.5
TEXAS
San Antonio	290	$38,440	0.9
Dallas	670	$56,630	0.9
Corpus Christi	40	$33,310	0.6
Fort Worth	140	$32,740	0.4
Houston	370	$44,590	0.4
Austin	60	$69,910	0.2
UTAH
Salt Lake City	490	$40,120	2.1
Provo	50	$42,950	0.9
VERMONT
Burlington	120	$44,040	3.2
VIRGINIA
Winchester	40	$82,400	2.4
Richmond	260	$50,490	1.2
Roanoke	50	$50,180	0.9
Virginia Beach	160	$33,170	0.6
WASHINGTON
Seattle	320	$57,850	0.6
WISCONSIN
La Crosse	190	$31,720	8.3
Wausau	60	$37,710	2.7
Milwaukee	540	$34,860	1.7
Green Bay	100	$41,880	1.7
Appleton	40	$45,320	1

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Most Popular Industries (as of 2008) for:
Healthcare Practitioners And Technical Workers

Industries representing at least 1% of total jobs for the occupation.

Industry	Jobs	Percent	Salary (2008)
Hospital	23,290	42%	$44,960
Medical Office	12,080	21%	$38,890
Government	7,380	13%	$56,300
Education	5,420	9%	$42,040
Nursing And Residential Care	1,680	3%	$36,010
Professional And Technical Services	1,430	2%	$51,900
Office Services And Staffing	770	1%	$32,510
Insurance	720	1%	$56,700

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Job Popularity in Metro Areas for Healthcare Practitioners And Technical Workers

Metro Areas Rated for Popularity (as of 2008) for:Healthcare Practitioners And Technical Workers

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ARIZONA

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NEW MEXICO

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