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The Top Metro Areas for Operations Research Analysts

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 2006) for:
Operations Research Analysts

Listed below are US metro areas ranked by the popularity of jobs for Operations Research Analysts 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	300	$82,730	3.6
Birmingham	180	$65,020	0.8
Montgomery	40	$47,450	0.6
ALASKA
Anchorage	40	$52,480	0.6
ARIZONA
Phoenix	1,630	$57,100	2
Tucson	160	$44,810	1
ARKANSAS
Little Rock	170	$49,270	1.2
CALIFORNIA
Sacramento	1,130	$63,290	2.8
San Francisco	800	$77,230	1.9
Oakland	810	$72,760	1.8
San Diego	600	$77,570	1
Oxnard	110	$76,650	0.8
San Jose	250	$81,680	0.6
Los Angeles	1,140	$70,660	0.6
Salinas	40	$97,630	0.6
Santa Ana	380	$69,260	0.6
Bakersfield	60	$91,850	0.5
Riverside	280	$64,090	0.5
Fresno	40	$46,640	0.3
COLORADO
Boulder	80	$70,140	1.4
Denver	720	$64,590	1.4
Colorado Springs	140	$80,610	1.3
CONNECTICUT
Norwich	90	$74,690	1.8
Bridgeport	280	$76,990	1.5
Hartford	210	$70,720	0.9
New Haven	60	$63,680	0.5
DELAWARE
Wilmington	450	$74,390	3.2
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Washington	3,930	$89,470	3.8
FLORIDA
Tallahassee	420	$48,330	6.3
Fort Walton Beach	110	$72,510	3.5
Jacksonville	600	$51,210	2.3
Panama City	50	$66,600	1.9
Orlando	830	$54,820	1.8
Tampa	880	$49,780	1.6
West Palm Beach	380	$62,000	1.6
Fort Lauderdale	490	$50,260	1.5
Gainesville	70	$51,720	1.5
Pensacola	80	$54,880	1.2
Miami	440	$55,430	1
Lakeland	80	$50,570	0.9
Cape Coral	80	$50,060	0.9
Port St. Lucie	40	$56,640	0.8
Sarasota	80	$53,590	0.6
Deltona	40	$53,540	0.6
GEORGIA
Atlanta	1,940	$62,430	1.9
Savannah	40	$52,550	0.7
HAWAII
Honolulu	130	$71,700	0.7
IDAHO
Boise	130	$60,220	1.3
ILLINOIS
Bloomington	50	$75,550	1.8
Chicago	1,430	$70,070	0.9
Waukegan	30	$70,420	0.2
INDIANA
Fort Wayne	80	$57,900	0.9
Indianapolis	320	$69,410	0.8
Gary	50	$50,680	0.4
IOWA
Des Moines	470	$49,550	3.5
KANSAS
Wichita	40	$44,220	0.3
KENTUCKY
Elizabethtown	70	$64,100	4.7
Louisville	200	$56,270	0.8
LOUISIANA
Baton Rouge	80	$40,970	0.5
New Orleans	60	$55,440	0.3
MAINE
Portland	60	$64,570	0.7
MARYLAND
Bethesda	550	$81,200	2.2
Baltimore	900	$85,290	1.6
MASSACHUSETTS
Framingham	240	$98,880	3.8
Boston	1,770	$74,600	2.4
Lowell	50	$84,930	1
Springfield	60	$61,470	0.5
MICHIGAN
Detroit	510	$71,840	1.7
Warren	840	$67,650	1.6
Lansing	100	$78,460	1.3
Kalamazoo	60	$66,750	1.1
Grand Rapids	60	$69,970	0.4
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis	1,550	$68,510	1.9
MISSOURI
Kansas City	550	$67,720	1.3
St. Louis	610	$65,650	1.1
NEBRASKA
Omaha	760	$57,940	3.9
Lincoln	50	$42,680	0.8
NEVADA
Reno	30	$65,630	0.3
Las Vegas	70	$76,000	0.2
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Manchester	40	$57,250	1
NEW JERSEY
Newark	570	$94,510	1.3
Trenton	120	$81,260	1.2
Edison	520	$94,720	1.1
Atlantic City	60	$81,000	1.1
Camden	40	$90,290	0.2
NEW MEXICO
Las Cruces	100	$87,540	4.3
Albuquerque	120	$82,890	0.7
NEW YORK
New York	1,820	$83,210	0.8
Buffalo	120	$60,970	0.5
Albany	80	$62,120	0.4
Poughkeepsie	40	$70,210	0.4
Syracuse	40	$51,250	0.3
Nassau	140		0.3
NORTH CAROLINA
Raleigh	570	$62,170	2.7
Charlotte	380	$52,550	1.1
Durham	110	$80,170	1.1
Greensboro	60	$60,520	0.4
OHIO
Columbus	400	$72,500	1
Dayton	150	$56,000	0.9
Cleveland	280	$64,510	0.6
Akron	50	$57,270	0.3
OKLAHOMA
Tulsa	90	$78,380	0.5
Oklahoma City	80	$60,670	0.3
OREGON
Portland	350	$64,690	0.8
PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia	680	$75,160	0.8
Allentown	100	$79,470	0.7
Pittsburgh	340	$50,080	0.7
Harrisburg	70	$67,730	0.6
Scranton	50	$52,030	0.5
RHODE ISLAND
Providence	220	$83,150	0.9
SOUTH CAROLINA
Greenville	120	$79,310	1
SOUTH DAKOTA
Sioux Falls	60	$44,200	1.1
TENNESSEE
Knoxville	100	$90,610	0.7
Memphis	130	$76,570	0.5
Nashville	160	$56,420	0.5
TEXAS
Austin	1,600	$70,770	5.2
Dallas	1,540	$63,620	1.7
Killeen	70	$75,970	1.5
Houston	1,190	$74,520	1.1
El Paso	70	$71,170	0.7
UTAH
Salt Lake City	350	$52,900	1.3
Provo	60	$48,220	0.9
VIRGINIA
Virginia Beach	1,090	$74,810	3.3
Richmond	420	$70,610	1.6
WASHINGTON
Seattle	490	$77,570	0.8
Spokane	40	$51,450	0.5
WISCONSIN
Milwaukee	270	$58,100	0.7
Madison	50	$54,080	0.4

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Metro Areas Rated for Popularity (as of 2006) for:
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