Large Cities Business Services Jobs - 2017 Best Cities Rankings

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2017 MSA Prof & Bus Svcs Ranking among Large MSAs Area Weighted INDEX 2016 Prof & Bus Svcs  Emplmt (1000s) Total Prof &

Bus Svcs Emplmt Growth Rate 2015-2016
Overall Rank Change

2016 to 2017
1 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN 89.7 160.3 5.2% 0
2 Kansas City, MO 85.3 99.6 9.0% 13
3 Austin-Round Rock, TX 81.7 171.1 3.7% 0
4 San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA Metro Div 79.5 274.4 2.8% (2)
5 Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metro Div 79.3 482.8 5.5% 0
6 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX 79.2 134.0 5.5% 19
7 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 79.0 227.5 2.6% (3)
8 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC 76.3 198.9 4.8% 1
9 Salt Lake City, UT 76.2 126.1 4.4% 15
10 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL 75.6 209.6 4.8% (3)
11 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 75.2 236.6 5.2% 0
12 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA 75.1 503.7 4.6% 1
13 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN 74.8 91.8 5.2% (1)
14 Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach-Deerfield Beach, FL Metro Div 74.3 151.2 4.1% 6
15 Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV 73.8 136.8 4.6% 2
16 Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA 71.9 131.3 6.7% 30
17 Raleigh, NC 71.5 115.2 4.7% (11)
18 Philadelphia City, PA 69.9 97.6 4.9% 31
19 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA 69.6 176.6 1.8% (9)
20 New York City, NY 68.9 735.3 3.1% (6)
21 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA Metro Div 67.2 250.9 2.6% (3)
22 Miami-Miami Beach-Kendall, FL Metro Div 66.5 170.8 2.6% 7
23 West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL Metro Div 64.2 111.1 3.3% (1)
24 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA NECTA Div 64.2 354.4 2.7% 8
25 Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ 63.8 348.7 3.3% 3
26 Middlesex-Monmouth-Ocean, NJ 62.8 155.7 1.9% 1
27 Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN 62.4 169.9 0.8% (6)
28 Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO 61.0 257.1 1.7% (12)
29 Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley, CA Metro Div 60.7 182.4 2.4% 1
30 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA 60.6 73.7 2.1% (7)
31 Orange-Rockland-Westchester, NY 58.3 92.2 4.2% 22
32 Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, CA Metro Div 57.0 299.2 2.2% 7
33 Providence-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA 56.7 71.0 1.0% (2)
34 Warren-Troy-Farmington Hills, MI Metro Div 55.3 269.7 1.9% 1
35 Columbus, OH 54.4 182.3 1.6% (2)
36 Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 52.5 74.5 1.3% 1
37 Nassau County-Suffolk County, NY Metro Div 52.3 176.5 3.2% 21
38 St. Louis, MO-IL 52.3 211.1 1.4% 12
39 Camden, NJ Metro Div 51.4 78.6 -0.1% (5)
40 Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights, IL Metro Div 51.2 689.7 0.5% 3
41 Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI 51.1 79.1 1.8% 23
42 Richmond, VA 50.4 110.7 -4.5% (34)
43 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metro Div 50.1 615.4 2.4% (1)
44 Northern Virginia, VA 49.5 398.9 2.6% 3
45 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 49.3 321.9 1.9% 3
46 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX 48.6 470.6 0.0% (10)
47 Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County, PA Metro Div 48.6 202.4 1.7% (6)
48 Jacksonville, FL 48.0 102.3 1.2% (22)
49 San Diego-Carlsbad, CA 47.5 234.8 0.2% (4)
50 Pittsburgh, PA 47.4 183.2 1.0% (10)
51 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY 47.3 55.4 2.8% 18
52 Bergen-Hudson-Passaic, NJ 45.5 145.8 2.3% 11
53 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA Metro Div 45.0 610.7 1.1% 7
54 Memphis, TN-MS-AR 44.8 98.3 -3.2% (35)
55 Urban Honolulu, HI 44.5 67.9 0.7% (11)
56 Kansas City, KS 43.8 92.9 -0.6% (18)
57 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN 43.7 170.4 1.6% 5
58 Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Div 43.6 112.4 0.7% (3)
59 Detroit-Dearborn-Livonia, MI Metro Div 42.2 125.5 2.2% (5)
60 Silver Spring-Frederick-Rockville, MD Metro Div 41.6 128.1 2.0% 8
61 New Orleans-Metairie, LA 40.0 74.8 0.6% (10)
62 Birmingham-Hoover, AL 38.4 65.9 0.4% (1)
63 Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY 38.2 72.4 2.3% 7
64 Cleveland-Elyria, OH 37.7 148.7 0.9% 1
65 Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI 37.3 124.1 -1.6% (8)
66 Rochester, NY 37.0 68.2 -1.4% 1
67 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 36.5 146.8 -6.9% (15)
68 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC 34.6 103.7 -0.6% (2)
69 Newark, NJ-PA Metro Div 32.7 216.2 -0.8% (13)
70 Oklahoma City, OK 31.6 78.7 -1.7% (11)
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