10 Easiest Cities to Find a Job in 2016

7. Dallas, TX
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington

Indeed Rank: 20 (34 job openings per 1,000)
WalletHub rank: 15
Average rank:17.5

Population: 6,954,330
Unemployment rate: 3.7
Average hourly earnings: $26.08
Job growth rate: 2.9
Per capita personal income: $49,506

With almost 7 million residents Dallas is the fourth largest metro area in the US and the most populated one on this list. In the last twelve months, almost 100,000 new positions have been added to the job market in Dallas. Trade, transportation, and utilities, the sector that employs the greatest number of workers, saw the greatest surge of new posts (23,900). On the other side, mining and manufacturing lost 5,900 and 7,100 jobs, retrospectively. At the end of 2015, around 131.200 people were unemployed, which is approximately ten thousand less compared to August 2015. With 420,000 workers, the government is one of the biggest employers in the area.