17. Tennessee
Annual median wage: $60,090
Cost of living: 89.8
Employment: 600
With only 4.8% unemployment rate, you can almost guarantee that looking for a job while living in Tennessee won’t be as challenging. Their strongest industries remain to be music, but advertising sure looks like it has some potential judging from the employment rates they have in the state. Like Arkansas, this state’s living expenses stay on the affordable side. In fact, their cost of living is so low you’d think the lowest wage-earners wouldn’t have a hard time. These are the reasons Tennessee is in the 17th place on our list of best states for advertising and marketing managers.
