Charlotte Ranks Among Top 10 Metro Areas Where Jobs Are Booming
WHERE'S NEW ENGLAND? I'm pretty certain that the greater Boston areas is performing quite well, economically. But apparently opportunity exists in the south, southwest and west, as Kent Temple's blog attests. Rural New England struggles, as it has for decades. Thanks, Kent, for posting these stats sourced from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics. I'm reading it again and again, weeping.
The Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord metro area ranks ninth in the U.S. among "big cities
where white-collar employment is booming," according to a new report from Forbes.
San Jose, Calif., is No. 1, followed by San Francisco. Raleigh-Cary, at No. 3, is the only
other Carolinas metro area to make the list.
Nationwide, the business-services sector has grown 21% since 2004, adding 3.4
million jobs that include management and administrative workers as well as skilled
workers in legal services, design services, scientific research and computer systems
and design, the magazine notes.
The rankings are based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on
employment growth in 366 metro areas.
In Charlotte, business-services jobs account for a 16.3% share of the local economy,
and business-services employment increased by 26.6% from 2009 to 2014.
Here are the top 10 metro areas for white-collar job growth:
1. San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
2. San Francisco-Redwood City-South San Francisco, CA
3. Raleigh-Cary, NC
4. Nashville-Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, TN
5. Austin-Round Rock, TX
6. Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX
7. West Palm Beach-Boca Raton-Delray Beach, FL
8. Riverside-San Bernadino-Ontario, CA
9. Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC
10. Atlanta, GA
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