Monday, November 22, 2010

15 America's Top Cities For Finding Jobs | Unemployed workers

The jobs website Juju.com releases a monthly Job Search Difficulty Index, which measures the difficulty of finding employment in 50 major cities around the country. The Index is calculated by dividing the number of unemployed workers in each metropolitan area, as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, by the number of jobs in Juju's index of millions of online jobs in the United States. Here are the cities that, according to that formula, are the least difficult to find a job in.

1. Washington, D.C.

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 1.11

2. San Jose, Calif.

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 1.20

3. New York, N.Y.

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 1.63

4. Baltimore, Md.

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 1.89

5. Hartford, Conn.

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 1.89

6. Boston, Mass.

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 1.97

7. Austin, Texas

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 2.25

8. Salt Lake City, Utah

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 2.37

9. Denver, Colo.

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 2.38

10. Milwaukee, Wis.

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 2.40

11. Cleveland, Ohio

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 2.45

12. San Antonio, Texas

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 2.52

13. St. Paul, Minn.

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 2.53

14. Oklahoma City, Okla.

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 2.57

15. Dallas, Texas

Unemployed individuals per advertised job: 2.61

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