This post profiles America’s largest job markets for Film and Video Editors (Standard Occupation Code: 27-4032). It is part of a series that profiles the major job markets for content creation-related careers. The goal of this particular series is to help students incorporate considerations of local jobs markets when crafting study and career plans. It can be of great benefit to study and live in areas in which there is a market for one’s chosen field.
The table below lists America’s 25 largest metro area job markets for Film and Video Editors. It provides information on the total number of people in that occupation, 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 | 8880 | 1.55 | 7.80 |
| 2 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA | 4530 | 0.52 | 2.63 |
| 3 | Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI | 890 | 0.21 | 1.06 |
| 4 | San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA | 710 | 0.32 | 1.60 |
| 5 | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | 520 | 0.20 | 1.00 |
| 6 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL | 480 | 0.20 | 0.98 |
| 7 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 410 | 0.14 | 0.70 |
| 8 | Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX | 390 | 0.11 | 0.55 |
| 9 | Austin-Round Rock, TX | 370 | 0.34 | 1.71 |
| 10 | Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH | 290 | 0.11 | 0.55 |
| 11 | Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN | 250 | 0.26 | 1.30 |
| 12 | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL | 230 | 0.18 | 0.91 |
| 12 | Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD | 230 | 0.09 | 0.43 |
| 14 | Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT | 220 | 0.41 | 2.05 |
| 14 | Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL | 220 | 0.19 | 0.95 |
| 14 | San Diego-Carlsbad, CA | 220 | 0.16 | 0.80 |
| 17 | San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | 210 | 0.20 | 1.00 |
| 18 | Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI | 190 | 0.10 | 0.52 |
| 18 | Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA | 190 | 0.10 | 0.49 |
| 18 | Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ | 190 | 0.09 | 0.44 |
| 21 | Salt Lake City, UT | 180 | 0.24 | 1.22 |
| 21 | Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA | 180 | 0.16 | 0.81 |
| 23 | Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX | 170 | 0.06 | 0.29 |
| 24 | Pittsburgh, PA | 150 | 0.14 | 0.71 |
Some observations:
- Los Angeles is the nation’s top job market for Video Editors by a long shot. The market is strongly concentrated in that metro area.
- Metro NYC is the country’s second-largest market. Though the market is smaller than that of LA, it is still sizable relative to the rest of the country.
