Where are the Jobs?

If you're trying to figure out where the jobs are, indeed.com does a report that shows you what cities currently have the most job postings per capita in United States.

The Top 20 Cities for Job Searches are:

Rank (Last Qtr Rank)	Metropolitian Area	Job Postings Per 1000 People
1 (1)	Washington, DC	133
2 (2)	Baltimore, MD	90
3 (3)	San Jose, CA	80
4 (7)	Austin, TX	56
5 (6)	Hartford, CT	54
6 (9)	Seattle, WA	53
7 (8)	Salt Lake City, UT	52
8 (11)	Denver, CO	50
9 (5)	Boston, MA	49
10 (4)	Las Vegas, NV	49
11 (15)	Charlotte, NC	49
12 (10)	San Francisco, CA	47
13 (12)	Milwaukee, WI	41
14 (30)	Atlanta, GA	40
15 (13)	Cincinnati, OH	39
16 (14)	Oklahoma City, OK	39
17 (22)	Orlando, FL	37
18 (23)	Richmond, VA	37
19 (24)	Jacksonville, FL	36
20 (16)	Dallas, TX	36

meanwhile the 10 major cities with the fewest jobs per capita are:

40 (44)	St. Louis, MO	30
41 (39)	Portland, OR	30
42 (42)	New York, NY	28
43 (41)	Birmingham, AL	28
44 (46)	Chicago, IL	27
45 (43)	Riverside, CA	26
46 (45)	Los Angeles, CA	24
47 (47)	Buffalo, NY	24
48 (48)	Rochester, NY	19
49 (49)	Miami, FL	17
50 (50)	Detroit, MI	15

It probably isn't surprising that Detroit has the fewest jobs per person, and that Washington DC has the most jobs per person. Government jobs and lobbying jobs are in demand as the government runs the printing press to try and save jobs and support the economy. Meanwhile Detroit, LA, Miami, and Chicago are having slimmer pickings.

Expect City by City unemployment rates to worsen

Even though the BLS issued its report earlier this week that the national unemployment rate is at 7.2%, it will be several weeks before they issue data by state & city. So the best they currently have to offer by city is for November-2008 (During which the US unemployment rate was 6.8%.
You can see that Washington DC had only 4.4% unemployment rate, Boston 5.0%, and Houston and Phoenix were both at 5.5%.

Miami was at 6.4% unemployed, Chicago at 6.5%; And Los Angeles came in at 8.1% and Detroit at 9.5%.

Seeing as how the national unemployment rate increased by 50bps since the November reports (from which these cities were pulled), don't be surprised if most of these cities increased by 0.5% themselves once more data is published