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Tulsa's midstream energy sector added approximately 900 direct jobs between 2023 and mid 2024, pushing total energy employment in the metro area to roughly 28,000. That 3.2%...
Los Angeles County's entertainment sector eliminated roughly 20,000 positions between 2023 and 2024. Broadcast divisions shrank. Development slates contracted. Legacy studio...
AT&T eliminated 12,800 positions across its U.S. operations in 2023 and 2024. The headlines told a story of contraction: a legacy carrier shedding weight, a sector in managed...
Worcester, Massachusetts, employs roughly 14,200 workers across its finance and insurance sectors. On paper, that figure suggests a diversified market with multiple employers...
Spirit AeroSystems shed 1,200 positions in Wichita during the second half of 2024. The headlines wrote themselves: bankruptcy, production cuts, workforce displacement. A...
Washington DC's international development sector has never operated as a single market. But in 2026, the distance between its two halves is wider than at any point in the past...
Greenville, South Carolina, is not a tire manufacturing hub. That distinction belongs to the plants scattered across Lexington County, the retread facilities in neighboring...
The Greenville Mauldin Greer metro area closed 2025 with an unemployment rate near 2.9%, well below the national average. Financial services employment in the MSA grew 1.8%...
Greenville, South Carolina employs roughly 4,600 people across two anchor operations that share a county, a supply chain, and almost nothing else in strategic trajectory. GE...
Huntsville, Alabama, closed 2024 with 46,000 defense contractor employees, a 12% increase since 2021, and an unemployment rate of 2.1% across the metro area. Federal...
Huntsville, Alabama, offers biotechnology companies lab space at $24 to $28 per square foot. The same bench in Boston costs $68 to $85. Cummings Research Park, the second...
Los Angeles County's entertainment sector eliminated roughly 20,000 positions between 2023 and 2024. Broadcast divisions shrank. Development slates contracted. Legacy studio...
Greater Los Angeles employs more aerospace and defense professionals within a 40 mile radius than any other metropolitan area in the United States. SpaceX builds Falcon 9...
Plano's financial services corridor added roughly 4,200 net jobs between 2022 and 2024. In the same period, commercial office vacancy in the Legacy West financial district...
Plano, Texas now houses more JPMorgan Chase employees than Toyota headquarters staff. That single fact rewrites the story most hiring executives still carry about this market....
Santa Barbara's maritime sector generated an estimated $480 million in regional economic impact in 2025, supported roughly 3,400 direct jobs across commercial fishing, vessel...
Santa Barbara County's visitor economy generated $2.47 billion in 2023, surpassing pre pandemic levels by 11.4%. Luxury properties along the coast now command average daily...
Tulsa's midstream energy sector added approximately 900 direct jobs between 2023 and mid 2024, pushing total energy employment in the metro area to roughly 28,000. That 3.2%...
Tulsa's aerospace cluster generated $2.9 billion in annual payroll through 2024, employed 28,400 workers, and accounted for 6.8% of the metro area's total employment. By any...
AT&T eliminated 12,800 positions across its U.S. operations in 2023 and 2024. The headlines told a story of contraction: a legacy carrier shedding weight, a sector in managed...
Arizona's defense sector generated $25.3 billion in contract value during fiscal year 2023. Within that ecosystem, Gilbert's Price Corridor along the Loop 202 Santan Freeway...
Glendale's downtown retail corridor tells two stories at once. The Americana at Brand holds occupancy above 95%, commands rents of $35 to $50 per square foot for inline...
Grand Rapids is building health sciences infrastructure faster than any secondary market in the Midwest. Between Corewell Health's $1.2 billion capital program and Van Andel...
Pratt & Whitney eliminated roughly 1,500 positions in Connecticut through late 2023 and into 2024. The headlines told a simple story: aerospace was contracting. The actual data...
Houston employs roughly 285,000 people directly in the energy sector and supports another 160,000 through its supply chains. The city contributed $172 billion in energy sector...
Three Fortune 500 headquarters sit within a two mile radius of each other in Las Colinas. McKesson, the fifth largest company in the United States, relocated from San Francisco...
Jacksonville's aviation, aerospace, and defense sector generated $4.2 billion in direct economic output in 2024. It supports roughly 28,500 direct jobs across Duval, Clay, and...
The layoff headlines told one story. The vacancy data tells another.
Las Vegas entered 2026 with more convention and exhibition capacity than any city in the Western Hemisphere. The Las Vegas Convention Center campus alone spans 4.6 million...
Little Rock's aerospace sector entered 2026 with a contradiction that should concern every hiring leader in the market. Dassault Falcon Jet's $100 million facility expansion at...
The Wilmington Field, California's largest active oil field and the third largest in the United States by cumulative production, continues to pump roughly 40,000 barrels per...
Louisville's automotive sector has absorbed more than $7.1 billion in capital investment since 2022. Ford's Louisville Assembly Plant is mid way through a $1.3 billion...
The single largest helicopter final assembly line in the western United States sits at Falcon Field in Mesa, Arizona. Boeing Defense, Space & Security runs it, turning out AH...
Miami's financial services sector is not experiencing a single talent crisis. It is experiencing two, running in opposite directions, in the same zip code. In one market, hedge...
Airbus delivered 67 commercial aircraft from its Brookley Aeroplex facility in 2024. It is targeting 75 to 80 in 2025. A $300 million capital expansion is adding 400,000 square...
Montgomery, Alabama, sits at the center of a defense contractor ecosystem worth $2.8 billion annually. Maxwell Gunter Air Force Base anchors it. Lockheed Martin, SAIC, and Booz...
New York City's media and advertising sector now employs roughly 310,000 workers across the five boroughs. That figure has held relatively stable through 2025 and into 2026....
Oakland's specialty food and beverage manufacturing sector employs roughly 5,000 workers across the Oakland Hayward Berkeley metro area. That figure has stabilized after a 3%...
Utah's labor force grew faster than any other state's between 2022 and 2024. The Ogden Clearfield metropolitan area posted a 2.1% annual workforce expansion during that period....
Oklahoma City's aerospace and defense sector generated an estimated $8.2 billion in regional economic impact in 2024. Boeing Defense is adding hundreds of engineering...
Omaha added 3.1 million square feet of new warehouse and distribution space across 2025 and into 2026. The buildings are finished. The tenants are signed. The workers to fill...
Broadcom's $69 billion acquisition of VMware released roughly 4,000 experienced enterprise software engineers into the Palo Alto labor market through 2024. By every...
Pasadena's aerospace sector entered 2026 carrying a contradiction that most hiring leaders outside the market have not yet grasped. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the...
Philadelphia's asset management complex manages approximately $2.4 trillion within a 50 mile radius of City Hall, anchored by Vanguard's $8.6 trillion global operation in...
Arizona State University and the University of Arizona together produced a record 3,400 engineering graduates in 2024. Phoenix's aerospace and defence employers needed 2,800...
Providence handled 3.8 million tons of cargo in 2024. Petroleum products still accounted for 42% of that volume. But offshore wind components, barely a rounding error three...
Utah County's enterprise SaaS corridor generated $4.8 billion in direct economic output in 2024. It hosts more than 6,200 technology firms. Net tech employment grew 6.8% that...
Richmond, Virginia, employs over 52,000 workers in financial services, a concentration that exceeds the national average by a material margin. Capital One operates its largest...
Salem, Oregon, sits 45 miles from one of the densest semiconductor fabrication clusters on the planet. That proximity has led many observers to assume the city functions as an...
Port San Antonio broke ground on Phase II of its "Project Next" expansion in 2025, adding 200,000 square feet of aerospace manufacturing space to a campus already at 94%...
Santa Fe welcomed 4.2 million visitors in 2024. Canyon Road lost 18 galleries in the same period. These two facts, sitting side by side, define the central paradox of the third...
The same market that saw 8.5% of Sonoma County's bonded wineries listed for sale in 2024 also saw a Vice President of Global Supply Chain recruited at a 35–40% compensation...
Savannah's aerospace cluster added approximately 1,400 jobs between early 2023 and the end of 2024. Production of the Gulfstream G700 has activated a second shift at the...
Seattle's aerospace sector entered 2026 with a paradox that no hiring plan anticipated. Boeing committed to adding over 10,000 workers in Washington State to restore production...
The Haynesville Shale reached 14.2 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas production in 2024, a record. Yet oilfield services employment across the Shreveport Bossier...
South Bend's precision manufacturing cluster entered 2026 with more advanced equipment on its shop floors than at any point since the Studebaker era. Honeywell's $35 million...
Kaiser Aluminum's Trentwood facility is the largest aerospace aluminum plate and sheet manufacturing operation in North America. It sits in Spokane Valley, Washington,...
Springfield, Missouri employs roughly 4,000 people across automotive aftermarket functions. The number sounds manageable until you look at what those people actually do. At...
St. Petersburg's financial services sector employs approximately 24,800 people within city limits. That figure represents 18.4% of the city's total private employment and is...
Port Tampa Bay processed roughly 170,000 TEUs in 2024, expanded its automated cold storage capacity by millions of cubic feet, and positioned itself as Florida's primary...
Tempe, Arizona, employs approximately 28,000 professionals across insurance operations and financial services, representing 18 percent of the city's white collar workforce....
RTX Corporation is completing a $200 million expansion at its Hughes Missile Systems Park in Tucson. The new facility adds 550,000 square feet of production space dedicated to...
Ventura's working waterfront tells two stories in 2026, and neither one is simple. The harbor's 85 to 95 active commercial fishing vessels still make it one of Southern...
Washington DC's international development sector has never operated as a single market. But in 2026, the distance between its two halves is wider than at any point in the past...
Spirit AeroSystems shed 1,200 positions in Wichita during the second half of 2024. The headlines wrote themselves: bankruptcy, production cuts, workforce displacement. A...
Worcester, Massachusetts, employs roughly 14,200 workers across its finance and insurance sectors. On paper, that figure suggests a diversified market with multiple employers...
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