10 Hardest Cities to Find a Job in 2016

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6. Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim

Indeed Rank: 127

WalletHub rank: 42

Average rank: 84.5

Population: 13,262,220

Unemployment rate: 5.4

Average hourly earnings: 27.00

Job growth rate 2015: 2.3

The second most populated metro area in the US, Los Angeles, had 28,400 unemployed residents at the end of 2015. Like in Birmingham, the unemployment rate has declined in last six months but remains above the national average. The good thing though is that the area recorded one of the highest job growth among listed places – almost 142,000 new jobs were added while 6,800 were lost. The sector that saw the greatest gains was leisure and hospitality (32,200 jobs). At the same time, information industry lost greatest number of jobs – 3,000.

10 Hardest Cities to Find a Job in 2016

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