Job Market Competition

Unemployed per Job Posting

How hard is it to find a job in your city? Here's the number of unemployed per job posting
for the 50 most populous metropolitan areas in the U.S.

Updated April 2013

Rank	Change	Metropolitian Area	Job Postings vs Unemployed Persons		Ratio
1		San Jose, CA			1:1
2		Washington, DC			1:1
3		Oklahoma City, OK			1:1
4	4	Boston, MA			1:1
5	-1	Salt Lake City, UT			1:1
6	-1	Raleigh, NC			1:1
7	-1	Austin, TX			1:1
8	-1	Hartford, CT			1:1
9		St. Paul, MN			1:1
10	1	Baltimore, MD			1:1
11	1	Richmond, VA			1:1
12	-2	Denver, CO			1:1
13		Seattle, WA			1:1
14		San Francisco, CA			1:1
15		Columbus, OH			1:1
16	1	Phoenix, AZ			1:1
17	6	New Orleans, LA			1:1
18	-2	Houston, TX			1:1
19	-1	Kansas City, MO			1:2
20	-1	Nashville, TN			1:2
21		Dallas, TX			1:2
22	-2	San Antonio, TX			1:2
23	2	Charlotte, NC			1:2
24	3	Cleveland, OH			1:2
25	3	Tampa, FL			1:2
26		Indianapolis, IN			1:2
22	5	Birmingham, AL			1:2
28	1	Orlando, FL			1:2
29	2	Jacksonville, FL			1:2
30	-6	Milwaukee, WI			1:2
31	-1	Louisville, KY			1:2
32	2	Cincinnati, OH			1:2
33	-1	Portland, OR			1:2
34	-1	Atlanta, GA			1:2
35		Pittsburgh, PA			1:2
36	1	Virginia Beach, VA			1:2
37	1	Philadelphia, PA			1:2
38		Providence, RI			1:2
39	-3	St. Louis, MO			1:2
40	1	Memphis, TN			1:3
41	-2	San Diego, CA			1:3
42	-2	Buffalo, NY			1:3
43	1	Sacramento, CA			1:3
44	-1	Las Vegas, NV			1:3
45		New York, NY			1:3
46	1	Detroit, MI			1:3
47	-1	Chicago, IL			1:3
48		Los Angeles, CA			1:4
49		Miami, FL			1:4
50		Riverside, CA			1:5

Based on preliminary April 2013 employment data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and subject to change.