This post profiles America’s largest job markets for Special Effects Artists and Animators (Standard Occupation Code: 27-1014). 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 Special Effects Artists and Animators. 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 | 4880 | 0.85 | 5.89 |
| 2 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | 1950 | 1.02 | 7.03 |
| 3 | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | 1450 | 0.56 | 3.87 |
| 4 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA | 1340 | 0.15 | 1.06 |
| 5 | San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA | 1310 | 0.58 | 4.02 |
| 6 | San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | 600 | 0.56 | 3.88 |
| 7 | Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL | 330 | 0.28 | 1.95 |
| 8 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL | 320 | 0.13 | 0.90 |
| 9 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 310 | 0.09 | 0.59 |
| 10 | Austin-Round Rock, TX | 260 | 0.24 | 1.65 |
| 10 | San Diego-Carlsbad, CA | 260 | 0.18 | 1.27 |
| 12 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 240 | 0.08 | 0.56 |
| 13 | Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA | 230 | 0.20 | 1.40 |
| 14 | Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT | 220 | 0.58 | 3.98 |
| 14 | Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD | 220 | 0.17 | 1.19 |
| 16 | Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI | 180 | 0.04 | 0.30 |
| 17 | Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI | 170 | 0.09 | 0.64 |
| 18 | Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV | 150 | 0.17 | 1.14 |
| 19 | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL | 130 | 0.10 | 0.69 |
| 19 | Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO | 130 | 0.09 | 0.59 |
| 21 | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | 120 | 0.04 | 0.30 |
| 22 | Salt Lake City, UT | 100 | 0.14 | 0.94 |
| 23 | Charlottesville, VA | 90 | 0.82 | 5.64 |
| 23 | Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA | 90 | 0.18 | 1.26 |
| 23 | Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN | 90 | 0.09 | 0.62 |
| 23 | Sacramento–Roseville–Arden-Arcade, CA | 90 | 0.09 | 0.60 |
| 23 | Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI | 90 | 0.05 | 0.36 |
| 23 | Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX | 90 | 0.03 | 0.22 |
Observations:
- One of the few markets in which New York is not highly competitive
- Seattle, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and the Bay Area are the strongest job markets.
