Charlotte, North Carolina continues to add to the feathers in its cap (North Carolina Takes First Place As A Top Competitive State For Third Year), with Forbes Magazine crowning the Queen City as the 4th best city in the nation for jobs in 2017 based on five years of job growth.
One of the contributing factors to job growth in Charlotte (which had a 3.2% growth in 2016 alone), has been the growth in the technology sector, which Forbes deems necessary for a healthy local economy.
"Charlotte, N.C., is more often associated with banks than bots. Yet from 2006 to 2016, tech businesses in the Queen City expanded their job count by 62%, with 18% growth from 2014-16, the fastest clip in the nation. Meanwhile, over the past decade, the metro area logged a 23% increase in the number of workers in STEM occupations (science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related jobs). This rapid job growth and strong recent momentum, driven partly by health care and environmental technology, ranks it second on our list. In the past 10 years, the region has added 7,400 jobs in two key high-tech business services sectors, custom programming and systems design services, along with nearly 700% growth in software publishing employment. To be sure, the share of tech jobs in Charlotte’s economy remains one third that of Silicon Valley, and the tech and STEM workforces are far smaller, but quality of life, lower housing prices, as well as decent plane connections, seem likely to help it to continue to attract tech workers."
Did you know that Charlotte is now the 17th largest city in the country, home to almost 1.2 million jobs in 2016, with 827,000+ people calling the Queen City home?
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