Job Market Competition

April 27, 2010

Indeed.com provides a chart with the ratio of job postings to number of unemployed for 50 metropolitan areas. While I am not sure how accurate the data is (job postings for staffing agencies, etc), the chart does give a good idea of what competition looks like.

Below are the top 10 for April 2010. (Click here for the entire list)

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Rank	Change	Metropolitian Area	Ratio
1		Washington, DC	1:1
2	1	San Jose, CA	1:2
3	-1	Baltimore, MD	1:2
4		New York, NY	1:2
5		Salt Lake City, UT	1:2
6	3	Boston, MA	1:3
7	1	Hartford, CT	1:3
8	-2	Oklahoma City, OK	1:3
9	-2	Denver, CO	1:3
10	2	Austin, TX	1:3