This post profiles America’s largest job markets for Music Directors and Composers (Standard Occupation Code: 27-2041). It is part of a series that profiles the major job markets for content creation-related careers.
The table below lists America’s 25 largest metro area job markets for Music Directors and Composers. It provides information on the total number of people in that occupation, the mean annual wage, the number of jobs per 1000, and the ‘location quotient’. The location quotient is the ratio of the percentage of jobs in that occupation locally to the percentage nationally. A score above one denotes that more jobs in that occupation are present in the local area compared to the national average, while a score below one indicates fewer jobs in the local area relative to the national average. Click here for more details on the data and methods employed to produce this information
| Rank | Metro Area | Total Jobs | Jobs per 1k | Location Quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | 950 | 0.17 | 2.46 |
| 2 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA | 650 | 0.07 | 1.10 |
| 3 | Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI | 480 | 0.11 | 1.67 |
| 4 | Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN | 340 | 0.35 | 5.14 |
| 5 | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | 270 | 0.10 | 1.49 |
| 6 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 260 | 0.09 | 1.31 |
| 7 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL | 230 | 0.09 | 1.37 |
| 8 | Rochester, NY | 210 | 0.44 | 6.51 |
| 9 | Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA | 190 | 0.17 | 2.48 |
| 10 | Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI | 180 | 0.10 | 1.46 |
| 11 | Providence-Warwick, RI-MA | 150 | 0.27 | 4.03 |
| 11 | Pittsburgh, PA | 150 | 0.15 | 2.16 |
| 11 | San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA | 150 | 0.07 | 0.99 |
| 14 | Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY | 130 | 0.26 | 3.77 |
| 15 | San Diego-Carlsbad, CA | 120 | 0.09 | 1.32 |
| 15 | Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH | 120 | 0.05 | 0.67 |
| 17 | Syracuse, NY | 100 | 0.38 | 5.53 |
| 17 | Columbus, OH | 100 | 0.09 | 1.37 |
| 17 | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA | 100 | 0.07 | 0.99 |
| 17 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 100 | 0.03 | 0.40 |
| 21 | Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN | 90 | 0.09 | 1.29 |
| 21 | Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI | 90 | 0.05 | 0.75 |
| 23 | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL | 80 | 0.06 | 0.93 |
| 23 | Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX | 80 | 0.03 | 0.40 |
Observations:
- Music direction is a competitive industry, which only a few hundred jobs available even in major markets
- Los Angeles is the country’s top music direction market
- New York is not a particularly strong music direction market
- Nashville, Rochester, Providence, and Syracuse have larger music direction markets.
