Ahead of todays bleak labor market assessment, job board Monster.com released a report on the best markets for job seekers in America, a spot of optimism in an otherwise dismal news day.
Within these regions, the average rate of jobs posted per participant is about double the national rate.
To gather the data, Monster analyzed the number of openings posted online by firms and government agencies, as well as career sites.
According to Monster the top ten cities for jobs are:
1. Washington
2. San Francisco
3. Baltimore
4. Minneapolis
5. Cleveland
6. Boston
7. Seattle
8. Orlando
9. Pittsburgh
10. Kansas City
“These markets are attractive because there is a robust demand for talent,” said Matthew Henson, a spokesman at Monster. “These major metro markets tend be really attractive for job seekers. We are seeing the trend escalate.”
“Washington, D.C., makes sense. It’s one of the few cities that isn’t in a recession,” Susan Houseman, senior economist at the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research in Kalamazoo, Mich, told Marketwatch.com.
Nonfarm payrolls rose by a seasonally adjusted 54,000 in May. This is the smallest gain since September and a fraction of the 125,000 jobs expected by economists polled by MarketWatch.
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