Best Places to Find Manufacturing Jobs

Here are the top 10 metro areas for new Manufacturing jobs for the 12 month period ending August 2007:

1. 7,500  Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
2. 3,500  Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
3. 2,600  Wichita, KS
4. 2,300  Salt Lake City, UT
5. 1,600  Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
6. 1,600  Austin-Round Rock, TX
7. 1,500  San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA
8. 1,400  San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
9. 1,400  Columbus, IN
10. 1,300  Modesto, CA

Nationwide however, the Manufacturing sector is declining rapidly. Employment has gone down by 204,000 jobs in the last 12 months ... and by 3.4 million jobs (a 20% decline) in the last 10 years. The metro areas losing the most manufacturing jobs in the last 12 months include:

• -4,600  Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI
• -5,100  Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI
• -5,600  Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA
• -6,200  Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
• -17,100  New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA

These data were compiled by Mark Hovind of www.JobBait.com using Bureau of Labor Statistics through August 2007. The original data sources are available at www.bls.gov.

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