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Metro Area	Jobs	Salary (2008)	Relative Popularity
ALABAMA
Huntsville	560	$66,630	1.6
Florence	90	$56,660	1.2
Birmingham	1,030	$50,740	1.2
Montgomery	300	$50,780	1.1
Auburn	60	$53,510	0.9
Decatur	60	$40,710	0.7
Mobile	200	$47,640	0.7
Anniston	40	$43,800	0.6
Tuscaloosa	80	$56,850	0.6
Dothan	50	$57,050	0.6
ALASKA
Fairbanks	80	$50,790	1.7
Anchorage	230	$63,120	0.9
ARIZONA
Tucson	370	$53,340	0.6
Phoenix	1,900	$51,670	0.6
Flagstaff	30	$54,370	0.4
Yuma	30	$53,120	0.3
ARKANSAS
Pine Bluff	60	$43,220	1.3
Fayetteville	210	$55,690	0.6
Little Rock	310	$54,510	0.5
Fort Smith	50	$45,060	0.3
CALIFORNIA
San Diego	3,750	$55,730	1.6
Oakland	2,550	$75,010	1.4
San Francisco	2,470	$81,470	1.4
Sacramento	2,150	$64,500	1.4
San Jose	2,130	$77,720	1.4
Hanford	50	$68,830	1.2
Vallejo	220	$84,190	1.1
Redding	100	$54,010	1
Santa Barbara	220	$62,670	0.8
Santa Rosa	240	$71,030	0.8
Stockton	280	$57,390	0.8
Riverside	1,720	$71,910	0.8
Modesto	200	$53,800	0.7
Oxnard	360	$65,920	0.7
Yuba City	40	$55,830	0.7
Bakersfield	310	$57,090	0.7
Fresno	390	$62,520	0.7
Salinas	170	$58,690	0.7
Santa Cruz	90	$58,950	0.7
Napa	50	$59,990	0.5
San Luis Obispo	80	$65,800	0.5
Merced	40	$61,600	0.5
Visalia	100	$54,410	0.5
El Centro	30	$51,340	0.4
COLORADO
Pueblo	80	$53,860	1
Colorado Springs	400	$57,300	1
Denver	1,900	$68,270	0.9
Boulder	160	$74,630	0.6
Greeley	70	$56,470	0.6
Fort Collins	90	$69,150	0.5
Grand Junction	30	$49,200	0.4
CONNECTICUT
Hartford	870	$70,350	0.9
Norwich	130	$56,340	0.7
Bridgeport	470	$70,680	0.6
New Haven	240	$58,220	0.5
Waterbury	50	$55,850	0.5
Danbury	40	$58,580	0.4
DELAWARE
Dover	170	$54,710	2.1
Wilmington	440	$63,430	0.8
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington	9,550	$80,030	2.4
FLORIDA
Tallahassee	510	$58,010	1.9
Fort Walton Beach	170	$60,120	1.5
Orlando	2,320	$54,930	1.3
Palm Bay	380	$55,480	1.2
Gainesville	210	$54,390	1.1
Miami	1,930	$62,640	1.1
Fort Lauderdale	1,310	$54,650	1
Punta Gorda	60	$54,520	1
West Palm Beach	930	$56,630	1
Tampa	2,090	$53,650	1
Pensacola	240	$48,660	1
Jacksonville	1,000	$54,090	1
Panama City	100	$51,490	0.9
Cape Coral	320	$53,650	0.9
Ocala	130	$49,740	0.9
Sarasota	350	$49,470	0.8
Port St. Lucie	140	$48,850	0.7
Deltona	170	$51,230	0.7
Lakeland	190	$52,920	0.6
Naples	110	$53,540	0.6
Sebastian	40	$58,350	0.6
GEORGIA
Warner Robins	230	$60,690	3.1
Columbus	160	$57,620	0.9
Brunswick	50	$72,080	0.8
Atlanta	2,990	$64,890	0.7
Augusta	190	$57,140	0.6
Athens	60	$51,560	0.5
Macon	80	$54,370	0.5
Valdosta	40	$49,880	0.5
Gainesville	40	$61,300	0.4
Savannah	80	$52,640	0.3
HAWAII
Honolulu	480	$60,430	0.6
IDAHO
Boise	300	$54,280	0.7
Idaho Falls	30	$59,320	0.4
ILLINOIS
Decatur	240	$65,770	3.5
Danville	120	$31,070	3.4
Springfield	430	$46,240	2.6
Champaign	180	$51,420	1.2
Rockford	300	$41,010	1.2
Chicago	6,670	$55,050	1
Bloomington	90	$72,850	0.8
Peoria	150	$60,450	0.5
INDIANA
Kokomo	150	$37,940	2.9
Columbus	80	$52,720	1.3
South Bend	210	$57,350	1
Terre Haute	100	$54,500	0.9
Bloomington	90	$45,230	0.9
Indianapolis	1,250	$56,920	0.8
Lafayette	90	$35,530	0.8
Evansville	190	$51,400	0.7
Fort Wayne	230	$44,640	0.7
Elkhart	70	$45,640	0.3
IOWA
Davenport	540	$53,730	1.8
Cedar Rapids	300	$47,820	1.4
Dubuque	100	$37,420	1.3
Iowa City	130	$50,840	1.2
Des Moines	610	$55,950	1.1
Waterloo	100	$46,320	0.7
Sioux City	80	$56,970	0.7
KANSAS
Topeka	220	$54,390	1.3
Wichita	340	$56,970	0.7
Lawrence	30	$59,130	0.5
KENTUCKY
Elizabethtown	150	$56,350	2.4
Lexington	440	$51,330	1.1
Louisville	1,040	$57,210	1
Owensboro	70	$33,690	1
Bowling Green	80	$47,640	0.9
LOUISIANA
New Orleans	650	$54,270	0.8
Alexandria	50	$53,500	0.6
Lafayette	120	$49,910	0.5
Baton Rouge	290	$50,960	0.5
Shreveport	110	$52,010	0.4
Lake Charles	40	$44,060	0.3
Houma	30	$45,130	0.2
MAINE
Portland	190	$51,600	0.6
Lewiston	40	$43,350	0.5
Bangor	50	$57,800	0.5
MARYLAND
Bethesda	1,570	$74,790	1.6
Baltimore	2,470	$65,470	1.1
Hagerstown	140	$57,600	0.9
Salisbury	50	$63,970	0.6
Cumberland	30	$42,900	0.6
MASSACHUSETTS
Brockton	210	$39,350	1.5
Taunton	90	$58,320	1.3
Framingham	290	$67,940	1.1
New Bedford	100	$51,940	1
Lawrence	80	$44,620	0.9
Lowell	170	$74,130	0.9
Pittsfield	40	$54,730	0.9
Boston	2,500	$67,180	0.8
Barnstable	130	$54,640	0.8
Springfield	380	$65,110	0.8
Leominster	50	$56,970	0.7
Haverhill	70	$55,410	0.6
Worcester	240	$61,100	0.6
MICHIGAN
Detroit	2,380	$57,860	2
Ann Arbor	470	$56,770	1.7
Saginaw	200	$56,990	1.7
Battle Creek	120	$53,160	1.7
Kalamazoo	350	$48,400	1.6
Grand Rapids	930	$44,060	1.5
Niles	100	$49,630	1.1
Holland	170	$48,890	1.1
Monroe	60	$46,390	1
Jackson	80	$50,260	1
Flint	220	$38,640	1
Warren	1,820	$61,850	0.9
Muskegon	60	$50,650	0.7
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis	4,980	$64,780	1.6
Rochester	160	$64,650	1.1
Duluth	220	$50,100	1.1
St. Cloud	160	$52,530	1
MISSISSIPPI
Gulfport	180	$67,630	1
Jackson	130	$64,560	0.3
MISSOURI
Jefferson City	140	$47,200	1.3
St. Louis	2,250	$54,190	1
Kansas City	1,440	$62,260	0.8
St. Joseph	50	$47,890	0.7
Columbia	80	$49,740	0.6
Joplin	70	$46,450	0.6
Springfield	170	$50,190	0.5
MONTANA
Billings	100	$55,680	0.8
NEBRASKA
Lincoln	210	$56,810	0.8
Omaha	560	$45,400	0.7
NEVADA
Las Vegas	780	$53,870	0.5
Reno	160	$58,080	0.5
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Portsmouth	120	$61,360	1.4
Rochester	100	$51,990	1.2
Nashua	260	$52,710	1.2
Manchester	140	$54,760	0.8
NEW JERSEY
Trenton	380	$61,390	1.1
Edison	1,860	$65,870	1.1
Camden	840	$63,330	0.9
Newark	1,470	$70,280	0.9
Vineland	60	$67,250	0.7
Atlantic City	130	$52,800	0.5
NEW MEXICO
Santa Fe	180	$44,360	1.9
Albuquerque	680	$59,880	1
NEW YORK
Albany	1,280	$57,540	1.7
Elmira	70		1.4
Buffalo	1,150	$44,130	1.3
New York	9,560	$60,400	1.1
Syracuse	520	$46,950	1
Rochester	740	$59,430	0.9
Poughkeepsie	320	$54,550	0.8
Nassau	1,730	$52,050	0.8
Utica	160	$46,450	0.8
Binghamton	120	$44,790	0.7
Glens Falls	50		0.6
Ithaca	30	$48,640	0.5
Kingston	40		0.4
NORTH CAROLINA
Jacksonville	90	$58,510	1.5
Greensboro	750	$53,430	1.2
Fayetteville	180	$62,520	0.9
Durham	380	$68,840	0.8
Winston-Salem	200	$53,680	0.6
Charlotte	800	$55,720	0.5
Raleigh	430	$60,570	0.5
Rocky Mount	40	$48,800	0.5
Asheville	130	$61,070	0.4
Greenville	40	$53,560	0.4
Wilmington	80	$55,740	0.3
Burlington	30	$48,730	0.3
Hickory	60	$49,180	0.2
NORTH DAKOTA
Bismarck	90	$53,560	1.1
Fargo	120	$52,870	0.6
OHIO
Mansfield	170	$51,610	2.2
Sandusky	110	$44,940	2.2
Lima	170	$49,780	2.2
Toledo	1,120	$44,730	2.1
Youngstown	710	$36,170	1.8
Cleveland	3,200	$48,990	1.8
Columbus	2,700	$53,670	1.7
Springfield	110	$28,180	1.6
Dayton	1,040	$56,230	1.6
Cincinnati	2,790	$49,500	1.6
Canton	390	$38,390	1.4
Akron	690	$45,780	1.2
OKLAHOMA
Lawton	40	$58,340	0.8
Oklahoma City	700	$46,720	0.7
Tulsa	250	$47,600	0.3
OREGON
Salem	470	$57,700	1.9
Eugene	410	$49,600	1.7
Portland	2,680	$60,200	1.5
Corvallis	50	$47,600	1.1
Medford	150	$51,350	1.1
Bend	100	$61,940	1
PENNSYLVANIA
Johnstown	200	$36,410	2.4
Harrisburg	760	$57,420	1.4
Pittsburgh	2,420	$39,420	1.2
York	360	$54,250	1.2
State College	100	$31,560	1.2
Altoona	100	$55,890	1.1
Scranton	450	$50,610	1
Erie	190	$57,230	0.9
Philadelphia	3,050	$68,930	0.9
Lebanon	60	$57,870	0.9
Allentown	460	$60,380	0.8
Reading	180	$30,720	0.7
Lancaster	220	$51,320	0.6
RHODE ISLAND
Providence	1,130	$47,570	1.2
SOUTH CAROLINA
Florence	80	$66,690	0.6
Charleston	270	$52,400	0.6
Greenville	280	$48,840	0.5
Columbia	310	$52,990	0.5
Spartanburg	100	$48,760	0.5
Anderson	40	$51,020	0.4
Myrtle Beach	40	$45,480	0.2
TENNESSEE
Memphis	690	$63,060	0.7
Kingsport	110	$50,660	0.6
Clarksville	70	$57,330	0.6
Knoxville	330	$55,980	0.6
Chattanooga	190	$53,610	0.5
Johnson City	40	$53,330	0.3
TEXAS
San Antonio	1,400	$63,490	1
Dallas	3,330	$63,980	0.9
Austin	980	$63,450	0.8
Killeen	130	$55,800	0.7
Midland	60	$51,370	0.6
Wichita Falls	50	$57,530	0.6
Texarkana	40	$58,370	0.5
El Paso	180	$56,250	0.4
Houston	1,740	$63,630	0.4
Fort Worth	560	$61,670	0.4
Waco	50	$52,190	0.3
Abilene	30	$45,320	0.3
Lubbock	60	$47,230	0.3
Tyler	40	$52,520	0.3
Corpus Christi	80	$57,110	0.3
Beaumont	70	$45,320	0.3
Laredo	30	$51,510	0.2
Brownsville	40	$53,640	0.2
Amarillo	30	$54,300	0.2
McAllen	60	$53,880	0.2
UTAH
Ogden	300	$58,780	0.9
Logan	50	$45,040	0.7
St. George	50	$45,250	0.7
Salt Lake City	740	$56,120	0.7
Provo	140	$48,340	0.5
VERMONT
Burlington	190	$63,810	1.1
VIRGINIA
Richmond	1,790	$61,230	1.8
Charlottesville	230	$57,420	1.6
Blacksburg	110	$53,750	1.2
Virginia Beach	1,470	$59,630	1.1
Winchester	80	$60,730	1
Roanoke	250	$50,810	1
Harrisonburg	70	$50,170	0.9
Danville	40	$47,930	0.8
Lynchburg	90	$52,960	0.6
WASHINGTON
Olympia	620	$57,410	4.2
Longview	110	$57,480	2.4
Bremerton	270	$69,130	2.1
Kennewick	280	$65,750	2
Seattle	4,420	$66,440	1.8
Tacoma	600	$67,740	1.3
Yakima	160	$50,430	1.3
Bellingham	150	$49,850	1.2
Wenatchee	60	$60,310	1
Spokane	320	$56,730	0.9
Mount Vernon	50	$50,210	0.8
WEST VIRGINIA
Weirton	180	$34,260	3
Parkersburg	230	$62,640	2.2
Wheeling	200	$43,560	2.1
Morgantown	140	$50,580	2.1
Charleston	270	$56,230	1.2
Huntington	200	$45,690	1.1
WISCONSIN
Oshkosh	420	$34,710	3.2
Wausau	280	$36,410	2.7
Appleton	470	$31,550	2.6
Fond du Lac	160	$37,780	2.5
Eau Claire	270	$45,480	2.3
Madison	1,050	$46,300	1.9
Sheboygan	150	$29,540	1.8
Milwaukee	2,410	$42,550	1.7
Green Bay	430	$33,320	1.6
Racine	160	$33,780	1.3
La Crosse	140	$34,670	1.3
Janesville	80	$30,100	0.8
WYOMING
Cheyenne	70	$57,340	1.1
Casper	40	$58,460	0.7

Industry	Jobs	Percent	Salary (2008)
Non-Profit	55,170	25%	$46,050
Government	38,830	17%	$64,710
Professional And Technical Services	13,550	6%	$61,840
Business Management	12,120	5%	$60,240
Office Services And Staffing	10,040	4%	$50,740
Education	7,870	3%	$52,410
Hospital	6,420	2%	$53,150
Department And General Stores	5,710	2%	$40,410
Banking And Credit	4,670	2%	$57,310
Medical Office	3,490	1%	$51,730
Automotive And Vehicle Manufacturing	3,450	1%	$67,220
Telecommunications	3,410	1%	$63,480
Hardware And Garden Stores	3,300	1%	$53,080
Insurance	3,240	1%	$59,680
Electronics And Computer	3,140	1%	$67,800
Durable Goods Wholesale	2,700	1%	$61,070
Nursing And Residential Care	2,330	1%	$47,830

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