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 July 2010

Rank	Change	Metropolitian Area	Job Postings vs. Unemployed Persons		Ratio
1		Washington, DC			1:1
2	2	New York, NY			1:1
3		Baltimore, MD			1:1
4	-2	San Jose, CA			1:1
5		Hartford, CT			1:2
6	5	Seattle, WA			1:2
7	-1	Boston, MA			1:2
8	2	Cleveland, OH			1:2
9	-2	Austin, TX			1:2
10	-2	Milwaukee, WI			1:2
11	2	Richmond, VA			1:2
12	-3	Denver, CO			1:2
13	1	San Francisco, CA			1:2
14	2	St. Paul, MN			1:3
15	-3	Salt Lake City, UT			1:3
16	1	Pittsburgh, PA			1:3
17	-2	San Antonio, TX			1:3
18		Oklahoma City, OK			1:3
19		Philadelphia, PA			1:3
20	6	Charlotte, NC			1:3
21	-1	Columbus, OH			1:3
22	1	Atlanta, GA			1:3
23	-1	Dallas, TX			1:3
24	-3	Virginia Beach, VA			1:3
25		Kansas City, MO			1:3
26	2	Birmingham, AL			1:3
27	-3	Indianapolis, IN			1:3
28	4	Nashville, TN			1:4
29	4	Providence, RI			1:4
30	8	Portland, OR			1:4
31	-1	Houston, TX			1:4
32	-5	Buffalo, NY			1:4
33	-2	Phoenix, AZ			1:4
34	2	Cincinnati, OH			1:4
35		Tampa, FL			1:4
36	3	Louisville, KY			1:4
37		San Diego, CA			1:4
38	3	Memphis, TN			1:4
39	1	Orlando, FL			1:4
40	-11	Rochester, NY			1:4
41	2	Jacksonville, FL			1:4
42	2	Chicago, IL			1:4
43	-1	St. Louis, MO			1:5
44	-10	New Orleans, LA			1:5
45		Sacramento, CA			1:5
46		Riverside, CA			1:7
47	1	Los Angeles, CA			1:7
48	-1	Las Vegas, NV			1:7
49		Detroit, MI			1:8
50		Miami, FL			1:8

Based on preliminary June 2010 employment data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and subject to change.