Hottest Cities For Job Seekers - Where The Jobs Are Now

Just call it "the bailout effect." Likely fueled by huge increases in government spending, Washington, D.C. may the best city in America for job seekers, according to a new ranking by the job search engine JuJu.com.

The folks at JuJu.com worked off the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and compared the number of job seekers to the number of job postings on their site. According to their calculations, there are just under two unemployed individuals per advertised job in Washington, D.C. Detroit ranked at the bottom on the list, with nearly 21 unemployed people for every job posting.

To be fair, Juju.com's method leaves a little bit to be desired. Rival job site Indeed.com runs its own set of rankings using a very similar calculation and comes up with some very different numbers. In an October ranking, Indeed.com also found the nation's capitol to be the best city to find a job, but came up with a significantly lower job seeker-to-job posting ratio.

And earlier this year, the Milken Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, got even more granular and examined smaller cities' job-creating potential by examining things like costs, wages, taxes and technology. (Cities in Texas dominated the list.)

Still, by sheer number of publicly advertised positions, Juju.com's list suggests a few unexpectedly hot cities. Here's the top ten:

1 Washington, DC 1.87
2 San Jose, CA 2.68
3 Baltimore, MD 2.91
4 Boston, MA 3.11
5 New York, NY 3.35
6 Salt Lake City, UT 3.35
7 Hartford, CT 3.60
8 Denver, CO 3.81
9 San Antonio, TX 3.84
10 Austin, TX 4.30

Here are the bottom ten cities on JuJu.com's list:

40 Portland, OR 8.91
41 Orlando, FL 8.92
42 Providence, RI 0 9.23
43 Birmingham, AL 9.62
44 Los Angeles, CA 10.43
45 Sacramento, CA 10.97
46 Las Vegas, NV 11.85
47 Riverside, CA 12.35
48 Miami, FL 0 14.47
49 St. Louis, MO 17.98
50 Detroit, MI 20.76

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Comments

[dailY BAILOUT]

10:46 PM on 12/31/2009

hat tip to http://iamned-site.blogspot.com/

[inorbit]

01:50 PM on 12/31/2009

I head North Dakota was the place to be.

[philosopherkingtomas]

01:24 PM on 12/31/2009

Billings and Missoula Montana !

[DrDemon]

07:52 AM on 12/31/2009

"Hottest Cities For Job Seekers"





ISN'T ALL THAT EITHER... it's not all that "rosy"

[MyTaskHelper]

03:42 PM on 12/30/2009

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Hope it helps,
thanks again!

[Joethepauper]

02:59 PM on 12/30/2009

We just had an attempted terr0rist attack last week, and I'd like to disect it a bit, as it pertains to this article. A person with an underwear b0mb waited until he was over Detroit to det0nate his poorly-devised dud. Not D.C. Not NY. Detroit!! Not only do they send him on a solo (un-coordinated) mission with a poorly-devised/constructed, powdery underwear b0mb (that ended-up setting his family jewels on fire), but he was sent to take-out one of our least productive cities! Are they smoking all the opium that Afgahnistan has to offer, or have they switched to crack? It's like an arsonist deciding to set fire to the one house in the neighborhood that was already burned-down a month ago! We are spending Trillions of $ on this GWOT, and our enemies are a bunch of illiterate, incompetent jihad!s. Remember Glasgow? Those m0rons just drove a jeep into the curbside check-in with propane tanks in back. Richard Reid's fuse to his shoe b0mb was too soggy to light (I guess stepping in a puddle never crossed his mind). The Ft. Dix plotters thought they could storm a military base posing as pizza delivery guys.....A MILITARY BASE!! Ft. Hood was only as bad as it was because nobody immediately jumped the guy (on a military base, full of highly-motivated war-fighters, it took security guards to stop it!). Detroit sounded like an odd target before this story.

[patrickmcdougal]

03:18 PM on 12/30/2009

Russia still has nukes pointed at it, it is our largest manufacturing center. I think you need to study some more.

[therealredstateblues]

05:01 PM on 12/30/2009

even in its dimished state, the Greater detroit area and the crescent formed around lake erie is still the most heavily industrialised part of the world

[shastaman]

12:40 PM on 12/30/2009

As an avowed Emmett Watson fan I like the bumper sticker " more jobs ? How about less people! "
Thank you very much for the placement of Portland Or at the bottom 10 slot!!!!! Yeah! maybe the many intent on moving here and clogging up the arterials and queing for the paltry jobs will think Houston instead!

SEAL THE OREGON BORDER!!!! NO MORE NY TIMES REPORTAGE! NO MORE CHICAGO TRIB DRIVEL! NO MORE GLUT OF UGLY CONDOS! GO HOME!!!!!!!

[kappa08]

01:48 PM on 12/30/2009

..ditto in Florida which has become America's drain. Stay in NY, Ohio and Michigan...keep your throw away house developers and people looking for work "where it's warm".

[laucarlson]

12:48 AM on 12/31/2009

Remember, we have a state capital without direct air service. Oh yeah, and it's raining all the time. And Portland has this giant store full of books printed on paper. Don't even think of moving here . . .

[mollymac]

03:25 PM on 02/13/2010

oh get over it. People can move wherever they want. It's a state, not nirvana.

[research]

12:30 PM on 12/30/2009

Just get jobs in the War Machine!

The USA's Number one "Private Enterprise" paid for by taxpayers, and destroying our world.

[sheilaofmiami]

11:09 AM on 12/30/2009

Private enterprise, I am sticking with it. Dog training, and maybe expand to some pet sitting. I am my own boss, and my own employee.

[sheilaofmiami]

11:04 AM on 12/30/2009

no wonder my son has not even looked for a job here in Miami. Maybe he needs to move in with Grandpa in Maryland/DC

[johnthesavage]

10:52 AM on 12/30/2009

Tattoo removal.

[Johnagain]

11:20 AM on 12/30/2009

Whoever invents a quick, relatively painless way to remove tattoos will become a billionaire.

[SomaMinneapolis]

12:20 PM on 12/30/2009

That same person will probably also have invented the time machine.

[neurolux]

02:00 PM on 02/13/2010

It would probably involve nanotechnology to break up the pigments.

[mero909]

10:35 AM on 12/30/2009

Nice... Well done to my home state of Texas.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/12/14-best-cities-for-jobs-t_n_354499.html

I do like that Washington DC is #1 on the list... government job increases anyone?

[gage]

10:50 AM on 12/30/2009

Yes, and lobbying increases too. Whenever there are gigantic government power grabs in the works, the number of lobbyists multiplies. It has to.

[kappa08]

01:57 PM on 12/30/2009

do you mean the lobbyists protecting the private business of health care or pharmaceuticals....umm news flash lobbyists don't work for the government they work for very large business's that can afford the graft...
Hey if you're ok with Bush cutting half our FDA force that let vile milk and mold filled drywall into our country from China so American can be as gluttonous as they wish all in the name of cheap goods but big profits for private business because there weren't enough agents to protect us...then who is the real enemy of our quality of life?....I'm all for staffing protection agencies, regulating the inherent piggishness of American and technology force trying to bring us up to the rest of the world....

[mollymac]

03:27 PM on 02/13/2010

I live in TX too, but am really sick of the republicans owning it. Still see people with McCain/Palin bumperstickers. Saw one the other day that said Palin Power. After I got momentarily sick, I had to laugh.

[MadHeart]

09:50 AM on 12/30/2009

Whatever happened to "an honest day's work for an honest day's pay?"

The "honest day's pay" was removed some time ago. Employers no longer think the American worker is worthy, not matter how productive they are, how steady, how conscientious. They prefer to outsource or find slave labor to import to to the US, and employ others at much higher pay who invent new technology, skirt the law, or push paper all day long, figuring out ways to make company profits larger--no matter how many people they starve to make it happen.

[mero909]

10:31 AM on 12/30/2009

Good comment.

[JayDubs]

10:47 AM on 12/30/2009

"They prefer to... employ others at much higher pay who invent new technology"

Yeah! Damn those scientists and inventors! How dare they take away the jobs of good, hard-working manual labor by inventing MACHINES!

What a joke. I bet blacksmiths and horse-carriage drivers said the same thing.

"Push paper all day long"

Yeah! Don't you know, office work isn't REAL work! The only real work is construction and coal mining! *Laugh*

And finally... "They prefer to outsource or find slave labor to import to the US"

Yeah, ignore the fact that people overseas are real people and their employment count too, and that the "slave labor" desperately wants that work. Ignore it all. Still, this is best captured by South Park's infamous line "DEY TUK ER JEOBS!"

[ForObamaInDallas]

12:17 PM on 12/30/2009

Agreed with the "push paper all day long" comment. It's not "real work" if you're not outside doing something. That's baloney. It's the same misconception that if you live in the city or an urban area you're not a "real" American.

There's this myth that "real" Americans live in small towns and do manual labor are the ones doing the "real" work.

A REAL American is a person who lives in the United States, regardless if it's rural, urban, or suburban. They are doing REAL work if they have a job. Period.

[patrickmcdougal]

03:20 PM on 12/30/2009

hmm. sounds like you are still in college,,, wait a few years

[maigoro]

09:50 AM on 12/30/2009

There is no perfect system.

- Socialism allows the poor to take advantage of the system and get a lot of things for free.

- Capitalism allows the Rich to take advantage of the system and make obscene amounts of money for very little work.

- ** Either way the middle ends up paying. ** -

[MadHeart]

09:54 AM on 12/30/2009

"Middle?" You either work for a company (hired labor) or own the means of production. There is no "middle", just the degrees of wealth associated with either class.

[JayDubs]

10:31 AM on 12/30/2009

Er... maybe I'm missing something obvious, but it seems like you could work for a company AND own a portion of the means of production. In fact, that seems like the general definition of middle class. Work a steady job, but have some accumulated wealth and investments on the side.

[mero909]

10:30 AM on 12/30/2009

It still depends upon which school of thought you belong to on whether Capitalism or Socialism is better.

Do you believe wealth creates jobs?

[FoonTheElder]

10:47 AM on 12/30/2009

No evidence of that in the last 10 years. The wealthy have been investing in companies that send jobs overseas.

A good example is the tax break the Bush Administration created to allow corporations to repatriate earnings at a 6% tax instead of 35%. The reasoning was so the companies could invest in America and add jobs. 90%+ went to stock buybacks and dividends.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/business/05norris.html?_r=1

[DonRoberto]

11:10 AM on 12/30/2009

The *desire* for wealth creates jobs, not the wealth itself. Capital is nice for expanding facilities, acquiring startup costs, and the like, but wealth by itself does *not* create jobs.

[WryAwry]

09:46 AM on 12/30/2009

Just as long as you can enjoy your prosperity by driving your Japanese automobile to purchase your plastic Chinese crap at WaldoMart.

[gussygoat]

10:32 AM on 12/30/2009

I have no prosperity which is the reason I drive a Japanese car that I've owned for 10 years with no problems other than routine maintenance.

[sheilaofmiami]

11:06 AM on 12/30/2009

German auto