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U.S. Employment Trends Report
January 2011
Contents
Executive Summary
Key highlights from this month’s report p. 1
About
Information on the Report and Simply Hired p. 14
• Agriculture and automotive industries resume hiring. Despite slowing down in December,
both the agriculture and automotive industries continued to increase in job openings, with
agriculture increasing 43.8% and automotive 13.8% from last month. The automotive
industry, hit hard by the recession, has shown promising growth over the last three months.
• Top nationwide employers unchanged. Four of five top nationwide employers remained
unchanged from last month. Taco Bell moved up to first place while Pizza Hut, also owned
by Yum! Brands, moved down to second. Advance Auto Parts moved from fourth to third,
while HCA dropped two places to fifth. Staples, which last appeared on the list in November
2010, held the fourth position.
• Constant retail and finance growth. Even after the holiday season, retail salesperson jobs
continued to increase, up 89.2%. Similarly, financial and accounting jobs experienced a
48.0% growth.
• Seasonal industries decrease hiring. Following the end of the holidays, industries with
cyclical hiring, like retail and transportation, have decreased hiring substantially. Job
openings in retail increased only 2.6% this month, while job openings in transportation
declined 14.4%.
• Noncyclical hiring slowly picks up. Job openings for nearly all industries and
occupations declined in most metros during December 2010. This month, hiring
appeared to pick up again, with the majority of industries, occupations and metros
indicating low but positive changes in job openings (excluding cyclical industries).
Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan
▲ 1.7% ▲ 65.1%
month-over-month year-over-year
(from December 2010) (from January 2010)
For job opening information based on industry and/or occupation, see Industry and Occupation Outlook
For top hiring companies in specific metropolitan areas, see Top Hiring Companies by Metro
• No change in job competition. The most competitive and least competitive job markets
remained about the same for the fifth consecutive month. One notable improvement: Detroit
dropped from second to seventh, with its unemployment ratio improving to 3:1.
JOB JOB
POPULATION
METROPOLITAN AREA OPENINGS OPENINGS
RANK
(M-o-M) (Y-o-Y)
1 New York (NY) 3.6% 84.7%
2 Los Angeles (CA) 2.9% 76.0%
3 Chicago (IL) 1.2% 73.9%
4 Philadelphia (PA) 6.3% 68.6%
5 San Francisco Bay Area (CA) 3.0% 92.0%
6 Boston (MA) 3.7% 86.0%
7 Dallas & Fort Worth (TX) 1.0% 78.7%
8 Washington, DC (DC) 2.3% 48.4%
9 Atlanta (GA) -2.2% 70.9%
10 Detroit (MI) 4.0% 117.5%
11 Houston (TX) 4.0% 65.2%
12 Seattle & Tacoma (WA) 0.3% 65.7%
13 Tampa & St. Petersburg (FL) 2.1% 79.8%
14 Minneapolis & St. Paul (MN) 5.2% 86.5%
15 Phoenix (AZ) -5.4% 76.4%
16 Cleveland & Akron (OH) 4.6% 101.1%
17 Miami & Fort Lauderdale (FL) 1.0% 63.0%
JOB JOB
POPULATION
METROPOLITAN AREA OPENINGS OPENINGS
RANK
(M-o-M) (Y-o-Y)
18 Denver (CO) -0.2% 74.2%
19 Sacramento (CA) 3.4% 77.9%
20 Orlando (FL) 5.7% 74.2%
21 St. Louis (MO) -1.7% 68.7%
22 Pittsburgh (PA) 9.0% 76.2%
23 Baltimore (MD) 5.5% 57.9%
24 Portland (OR) 3.7% 67.0%
25 Indianapolis (IN) 0.6% 84.6%
26 San Diego (CA) 6.3% 56.0%
27 Hartford & New Haven (CT) -1.0% 92.6%
28 Charlotte (NC) 3.5% 82.7%
29 Raleigh & Durham (NC) 2.9% 65.9%
30 Nashville (TN) 6.1% 80.8%
31 Kansas City (MO) 4.4% 70.4%
32 Cincinnati (OH) 4.3% 85.4%
33 Milwaukee (WI) -3.2% 56.9%
34 Columbus (OH) 3.4% 99.8%
35 Greenville (SC) 0.5% 84.6%
36 Salt Lake City (UT) 5.8% 74.3%
37 San Antonio (TX) 4.0% 54.9%
38 Grand Rapids (MI) -2.7% 76.8%
39 West Palm Beach (FL) 0.0% 55.8%
40 Birmingham (AL) -2.2% 67.7%
41 Norfolk & Newport News (VA) 3.4% 58.5%
42 New Orleans (LA) 1.4% 67.3%
43 Memphis (TN) 2.2% 61.2%
44 Buffalo (NY) 5.4% 60.0%
45 Oklahoma City (OK) 3.7% 62.0%
46 Greensboro & Winston-Salem (NC) 3.2% 75.2%
47 Harrisburg (PA) 4.4% 63.4%
48 Providence (RI) 4.7% 88.4%
49 Albuquerque & Santa Fe (NM) -1.6% 48.7%
50 Louisville (KY) 2.4% 84.4%
Based on most recently available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and SimplyHired.com
UNEMPLOYED PERSONS :
RANKING CHANGE METROPOLITAN AREA
JOB OPENINGS
UNEMPLOYED PERSONS :
RANKING CHANGE METROPOLITAN AREA
JOB OPENINGS
Based on most recently available data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and SimplyHired.com
• Increase in personal care and services jobs. While retail (89.2%) and finance (48.0%) jobs
continued to show the greatest growth, personal care and services jobs also increased 11.4%.
Personal care and services includes occupations such as hairdresser, hotel concierge, movie
usher, physical trainer and funeral embalmer.
• Baltimore hiring picks up. For the first time since September 2010, the Baltimore metro had
at least five companies hiring for 50 or more jobs: ManTech International, Yum! Brands, L-3
Communications, CACI International and Genesis HealthCare.
Atlanta, GA Chicago, IL
1. Yum! Brands – 190 jobs (-13.4%) 1. Advocate Health Care – 770 jobs (-0.5%)
2. Time Warner – 180 jobs (10.9%) 2. Provena Health – 337 jobs (18.6%)
3. Emory University – 175 jobs (-0.3%) 3. Yum! Brands – 168 jobs (-13.4%)
4. Home Depot – 166 jobs (17.0%) 4. Fifth Third Bank – 156 jobs (1.4%)
5. Gentiva Health Services – 154 jobs (15.8%) 5. HCR Manor Care – 138 jobs (-3.2%)
Baltimore, MD Cleveland, OH
1. ManTech International – 79 jobs (-1.4%) 1. Yum! Brands – 129 jobs (-2.9%)
2. Yum! Brands – 76 jobs (-18.2%) 2. Extendicare Health Services – 83 jobs (4.4%)
3. L-3 Communications – 62 jobs (14.4%) 3. Goodyear Tire & Rubber – 81 jobs (-2.6%)
4. CACI International – 57 jobs (16.2%) 4. Kindred Healthcare – 66 jobs (29.1%)
5. Genesis HealthCare – 56 jobs (8.5%) 5. Sears – 58 jobs (14.9%)
The U.S. Employment Trends Report is a monthly summary and analysis of employment
trends in the United States. These findings are based on monthly job seeker activity on
SimplyHired.com, which aggregates millions of listings from over 30,000 employment sites,
and data obtained from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Some findings may be projected
from recent historical data. Data may not be representative of all industries, occupations
and/or metro areas. “Metropolitan Areas” in this report are the 50 most populous in the
U.S., as ranked by the Nielsen Company’s Designated Market Area (DMA) list. “Occupation
Categories” are derived from the Department of Labor’s O*NET database.
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and 11 languages on six continents. Simply Hired has raised $22.3 million in funding from
venture and individual investors including Foundation Capital, IDG Ventures and News
Corporation. The company is privately held and is based in Mountain View, California.
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