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Metro Area	Jobs	Salary (2008)	Relative Popularity
ALABAMA
Tuscaloosa	40		0.3
Birmingham	190	$65,460	0.2
Montgomery	50	$59,480	0.2
Mobile	50	$66,940	0.2
ALASKA
Anchorage	60	$58,020	0.2
ARIZONA
Tucson	880	$50,650	1.3
Phoenix	2,950	$60,180	0.8
Prescott	70	$61,370	0.7
Flagstaff	60	$45,460	0.7
ARKANSAS
Fayetteville	240	$53,200	0.7
Little Rock	280	$57,240	0.4
Fort Smith	80	$49,060	0.4
CALIFORNIA
San Jose	5,170	$100,010	3
San Francisco	4,500	$83,590	2.4
Santa Ana	3,770	$64,030	1.3
Oxnard	600	$61,980	1.1
Oakland	2,110	$76,380	1.1
Santa Barbara	320	$75,720	1.1
San Diego	2,490	$70,990	1
Sacramento	1,320	$55,370	0.8
Santa Cruz	110	$69,880	0.7
Santa Rosa	240	$53,820	0.7
Napa	60	$74,750	0.6
Modesto	160	$58,120	0.5
Vallejo	100	$63,960	0.5
Stockton	180	$66,940	0.5
San Luis Obispo	80	$54,910	0.5
Riverside	1,070	$56,190	0.4
Fresno	230	$52,820	0.4
Chico	40	$43,900	0.3
Salinas	90	$52,000	0.3
Bakersfield	110		0.2
Visalia	40	$46,370	0.2
CONNECTICUT
Bridgeport	1,430	$76,540	1.8
Danbury	100	$60,640	0.8
New Haven	390	$57,410	0.8
Hartford	770	$62,600	0.7
Norwich	140		0.6
DELAWARE
Wilmington	1,760	$75,560	2.9
Dover	60	$41,290	0.7
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington	9,680	$74,950	2.2
FLORIDA
Jacksonville	990	$55,580	0.9
Fort Lauderdale	940	$54,830	0.7
Tampa	1,330	$58,130	0.6
West Palm Beach	510	$65,500	0.5
Miami	900	$66,070	0.5
Tallahassee	130	$58,150	0.4
Panama City	50	$50,140	0.4
Palm Bay	140	$53,070	0.4
Naples	70	$51,680	0.3
Orlando	650	$54,840	0.3
Fort Walton Beach	40	$38,040	0.3
Sarasota	140	$72,190	0.3
Deltona	70	$41,040	0.3
Ocala	40	$61,400	0.2
Lakeland	60	$67,030	0.2
Cape Coral	60	$62,130	0.2
GEORGIA
Atlanta	5,180	$61,690	1.2
Columbus	100	$56,970	0.5
Dalton	60	$52,900	0.5
Macon	70	$43,530	0.4
Gainesville	40	$62,810	0.3
Athens	40	$37,280	0.3
Savannah	80	$51,990	0.3
Augusta	70	$42,070	0.2
HAWAII
Honolulu	220	$59,190	0.3
IDAHO
Coeur d'Alene	90	$56,000	1
Boise	310	$65,230	0.6
ILLINOIS
Decatur	190	$72,320	2.5
Springfield	310	$58,740	1.7
Chicago	11,520	$61,540	1.6
Champaign	180	$51,470	1.1
Bloomington	130	$70,850	1.1
Rockford	260	$52,250	1
Peoria	210	$58,820	0.7
INDIANA
Fort Wayne	240	$46,590	0.6
Indianapolis	940	$59,260	0.6
Muncie	40	$53,140	0.5
Kokomo	30	$74,640	0.5
Lafayette	50	$52,420	0.4
Bloomington	40	$57,950	0.3
Terre Haute	40	$53,360	0.3
Evansville	100	$51,080	0.3
Gary	120	$52,710	0.2
South Bend	50	$59,810	0.2
IOWA
Des Moines	890	$55,510	1.5
Cedar Rapids	310	$66,810	1.3
Davenport	250	$52,080	0.8
Dubuque	60	$44,710	0.7
Waterloo	100	$42,530	0.7
Sioux City	70	$59,620	0.6
Iowa City	70	$54,400	0.6
Ames	30	$54,400	0.5
KANSAS
Topeka	210	$60,660	1.1
Wichita	540	$52,760	1
Lawrence	60		0.8
KENTUCKY
Louisville	580	$68,530	0.5
Lexington	150	$60,330	0.3
LOUISIANA
New Orleans	280	$43,430	0.3
Lafayette	70	$50,950	0.3
Baton Rouge	150	$49,460	0.2
Shreveport	30	$41,400	0.1
MAINE
Portland	100	$58,380	0.3
MARYLAND
Bethesda	2,180	$64,880	2.1
Baltimore	2,320	$68,200	1
Salisbury	50	$78,530	0.6
Hagerstown	40	$65,210	0.2
MASSACHUSETTS
Framingham	1,050	$81,910	3.6
Boston	6,800	$75,310	2.1
Lowell	390	$81,700	1.8
Worcester	460	$71,860	1
Pittsfield	50	$44,440	1
Haverhill	120	$65,640	0.9
Brockton	140	$66,500	0.9
Lawrence	80	$74,360	0.9
Barnstable	130	$48,750	0.8
Leominster	50	$49,370	0.6
New Bedford	60	$49,010	0.6
Taunton	40	$68,390	0.5
Springfield	280	$61,250	0.5
MICHIGAN
Niles	160	$73,460	1.6
Warren	2,690	$71,940	1.2
Ann Arbor	340	$56,040	1.2
Detroit	1,340	$79,940	1
Holland	130	$64,610	0.7
Lansing	250	$64,570	0.7
Grand Rapids	500	$63,970	0.7
Battle Creek	50	$61,300	0.6
Kalamazoo	130	$54,080	0.5
Flint	120	$67,540	0.5
Muskegon	40	$49,410	0.4
Saginaw	40	$61,770	0.3
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis	6,740	$74,190	2
Rochester	110	$83,680	0.7
St. Cloud	100	$66,330	0.6
Duluth	80	$56,440	0.4
MISSISSIPPI
Gulfport	60		0.3
Jackson	100	$61,770	0.2
MISSOURI
Kansas City	1,970	$62,520	1
St. Louis	2,390	$62,370	0.9
Springfield	180	$39,270	0.5
St. Joseph	40	$65,010	0.5
Joplin	40	$64,850	0.3
Columbia	40	$41,440	0.3
MONTANA
Billings	70	$53,350	0.5
NEBRASKA
Omaha	1,280	$64,680	1.5
Lincoln	310	$51,810	1.1
NEVADA
Reno	140	$55,650	0.4
Las Vegas	630	$56,150	0.4
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Portsmouth	100	$58,480	1.1
Rochester	50	$58,190	0.5
Manchester	90	$67,730	0.5
Nashua	120	$63,800	0.5
NEW JERSEY
Trenton	470	$66,090	1.2
Edison	1,880	$73,520	1
Newark	1,620	$82,230	0.9
Camden	520	$66,050	0.5
NEW MEXICO
Albuquerque	280	$58,100	0.4
Santa Fe	40	$42,960	0.4
NEW YORK
New York	18,760	$73,400	2
Nassau	3,130	$77,840	1.3
Rochester	1,190	$67,710	1.3
Albany	850	$61,360	1.1
Buffalo	920	$61,780	0.9
Ithaca	60	$51,150	0.9
Syracuse	500	$56,310	0.9
Binghamton	160	$70,760	0.9
Kingston	60	$47,170	0.6
Elmira	30	$62,330	0.5
Poughkeepsie	230	$70,210	0.5
Utica	100	$60,240	0.4
NORTH CAROLINA
Durham	690	$86,570	1.4
Raleigh	1,080	$63,720	1.1
Winston-Salem	360	$63,840	0.9
Charlotte	1,280	$61,510	0.8
Greensboro	520	$53,290	0.8
Hickory	170	$66,800	0.6
Greenville	50	$52,920	0.4
Wilmington	80	$58,050	0.3
NORTH DAKOTA
Fargo	130	$61,100	0.6
OHIO
Cincinnati	2,400	$63,280	1.2
Columbus	1,820	$66,730	1
Dayton	700	$57,100	1
Akron	600	$64,280	1
Cleveland	1,900	$65,580	1
Toledo	410	$58,130	0.7
Canton	150	$60,400	0.5
Youngstown	150	$53,600	0.4
OKLAHOMA
Tulsa	670	$53,810	0.8
Oklahoma City	820	$44,260	0.8
OREGON
Portland	1,570	$72,710	0.8
Medford	30	$62,920	0.2
Eugene	40	$49,860	0.2
PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia	6,320	$61,050	1.8
State College	130	$70,470	1.4
Harrisburg	750	$48,990	1.3
Pittsburgh	2,640	$53,690	1.2
Lancaster	420	$56,430	1
Allentown	560	$59,220	0.9
Johnstown	80	$52,690	0.9
Reading	220	$50,160	0.8
York	220	$50,210	0.7
Scranton	290	$49,420	0.6
Altoona	60	$53,760	0.6
Erie	130	$53,410	0.6
Lebanon	30	$50,950	0.4
RHODE ISLAND
Providence	360	$57,010	0.3
SOUTH CAROLINA
Greenville	580	$65,160	1
Myrtle Beach	200	$28,480	1
Charleston	180	$54,500	0.3
Columbia	210	$56,920	0.3
Spartanburg	60	$91,130	0.3
Florence	30	$48,260	0.2
SOUTH DAKOTA
Sioux Falls	100	$49,280	0.4
TENNESSEE
Knoxville	250	$46,190	0.4
Clarksville	40	$47,850	0.3
Chattanooga	90	$55,150	0.2
TEXAS
Austin	2,440	$82,200	1.7
Waco	260	$75,120	1.6
Dallas	5,440	$73,520	1.4
Houston	4,510	$71,430	0.9
Fort Worth	1,470	$56,040	0.9
San Antonio	1,200	$64,230	0.8
Amarillo	130	$48,400	0.8
El Paso	340	$41,050	0.7
Lubbock	150	$50,650	0.7
Tyler	90	$44,430	0.6
Longview	90	$55,330	0.6
Odessa	50	$56,380	0.5
Sherman	30	$45,940	0.5
San Angelo	30	$41,930	0.5
Laredo	60	$49,640	0.4
Midland	40	$56,390	0.4
Corpus Christi	110	$50,150	0.4
College Station	40	$36,370	0.3
Abilene	30	$62,300	0.3
Beaumont	80	$62,370	0.3
McAllen	90	$43,340	0.2
Brownsville	40	$54,260	0.2
UTAH
Provo	280	$55,020	1
Salt Lake City	860	$58,680	0.7
St. George	50	$50,030	0.6
Ogden	140	$44,920	0.4
VERMONT
Burlington	410	$49,600	2.2
VIRGINIA
Charlottesville	300	$48,920	1.9
Blacksburg	150	$63,070	1.5
Richmond	1,590	$58,510	1.4
Harrisonburg	100	$40,510	1.1
Lynchburg	150	$44,490	0.9
Winchester	60	$57,270	0.7
Virginia Beach	920	$51,850	0.7
Roanoke	160	$47,220	0.6
WASHINGTON
Seattle	7,230	$90,750	2.7
Bellingham	120	$51,410	0.9
Spokane	290	$53,800	0.8
Tacoma	330	$70,980	0.7
Olympia	80	$59,390	0.5
Bremerton	50	$53,800	0.4
Yakima	40	$60,040	0.3
Kennewick	40	$55,860	0.3
WEST VIRGINIA
Wheeling	70	$41,220	0.7
Charleston	40	$45,560	0.2
Huntington	30	$41,790	0.2
WISCONSIN
Racine	220	$64,960	1.7
Oshkosh	190	$60,670	1.3
Madison	620	$64,750	1
Milwaukee	1,340	$72,350	0.8
Wausau	80	$56,680	0.7
Appleton	100	$60,210	0.5
Green Bay	140	$53,640	0.5
Eau Claire	60	$46,320	0.5
Sheboygan	40	$65,350	0.4
WYOMING
Cheyenne	70	$43,750	1

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Industry	Jobs	Percent	Salary (2008)
Professional And Technical Services	69,210	30%	$60,390
Business Management	17,910	7%	$65,880
Traditional Publishing	11,840	5%	$78,080
Insurance	11,700	5%	$57,630
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Office Services And Staffing	9,900	4%	$55,010
Banking And Credit	8,990	3%	$61,030
Electronics And Computer	7,470	3%	$85,920
Telecommunications	6,910	3%	$76,350
Securities And Investment	6,010	2%	$65,090
Real Estate	5,050	2%	$46,030
Non-Durable Goods Wholesale	4,600	2%	$63,570
Online Wholesale	4,240	1%	$59,020
Education	3,970	1%	$46,010
Non-Profit	3,750	1%	$50,660
Medical Office	3,130	1%	$48,430
Government	2,840	1%	$58,970
Chemicals	2,370	1%	$64,520

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