This post profiles America’s largest job markets for News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists (Standard Occupation Code: 27-3023). 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 News Analysts, Reporters, and Journalists. 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 Job | Jobs per 1k | Location Quotient |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA | 4750 | 0.55 | 1.97 |
| 2 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 2130 | 0.73 | 2.62 |
| 3 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | 2060 | 0.36 | 1.30 |
| 4 | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | 1630 | 0.63 | 2.27 |
| 5 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL | 840 | 0.34 | 1.23 |
| 6 | Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI | 710 | 0.17 | 0.61 |
| 7 | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | 600 | 0.23 | 0.81 |
| 8 | Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX | 590 | 0.20 | 0.73 |
| 9 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 580 | 0.16 | 0.58 |
| 10 | Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ | 540 | 0.25 | 0.92 |
| 10 | San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA | 540 | 0.24 | 0.86 |
| 12 | Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH | 450 | 0.18 | 0.63 |
| 13 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | 420 | 0.22 | 0.79 |
| 14 | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL | 380 | 0.29 | 1.05 |
| 15 | Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO | 370 | 0.25 | 0.92 |
| 16 | Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN | 360 | 0.36 | 1.30 |
| 17 | Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL | 340 | 0.29 | 1.04 |
| 18 | Cleveland-Elyria, OH | 320 | 0.33 | 1.20 |
| 19 | Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN | 290 | 0.28 | 1.01 |
| 19 | Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI | 290 | 0.16 | 0.58 |
| 21 | Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN | 280 | 0.44 | 1.60 |
| 22 | Salt Lake City, UT | 250 | 0.34 | 1.22 |
| 22 | Austin-Round Rock, TX | 250 | 0.23 | 0.85 |
| 24 | Pittsburgh, PA | 240 | 0.23 | 0.82 |
Observations:
- New York City is the top journalism market in the US, followed by Washington DC.
- Substantial markets exist in Atlanta and Los Angeles.
