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Reduction labor market challenges college graduates who want to start their careers, many graduates find work in Southern cities.
A study by ADP used anonymized data to compare the 53 largest metro areas in the US based on employment, wages and affordability for workers in their 20s with college degrees.
It found that Birmingham, Alabama, and Tampa, Florida, were at the top of the list of places where graduates are starting jobs. Birmingham was in the 85th percentile or higher for wages, affordability and employment, while Tampa was encouraged to climb higher in wages despite scoring in the middle for wages and affordability.
Those cities are followed by San Jose, California, and Columbus, Ohio, in the rankings.
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Tampa, Florida, was one of the top cities on the list of places for recent graduates to start their careers. (Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Another four of the top ten cities are also located in the South, including Raleigh, North Carolina; Tulsa, Oklahoma; Nashville, Tennessee; and Charlotte, North Carolina. Two major metro areas round out the top 10, with San Francisco and New York City ranked seventh and tenth respectively.
Report of The Wall Street Journal about the findings of the ADP study noted that the analysis suggests the nascent recovery in college graduate employment is playing out unevenly across the country.
The Journal noted that both Columbus and San Jose unexpectedly rose in the rankings this year despite parts of its overall ranking remaining unchanged, as San Jose ranked in the 12th percentile of metropolitan areas for affordability and Columbus was in the 50th percentile for income.
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Raleigh, NC, ranks in the top 10 on a list of metro areas that hire college graduates. (Stock)
Several prominent metro areas have lost ground in their total rates, such as Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Baltimore, Maryland; again Austin, Texasthey were ranked in the top five last year but fell below their peers this year.
Austin was in the 94th percentile last year but dropped to 77th, while Baltimore also dropped from the 96th percentile to 75th.
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San Francisco and San Jose represent the West in the rankings. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
The figures, which have risen significantly from last year’s report, include several members of the top ten list. Tampa jumped from the 54th percentile to 98, while San Jose rose from the 76th percentile to 96, and Tulsa rose from 50 to 90.
Fresno, California, was outside the top 10 but made the biggest difference in the report from 22 percent to 79 percent.
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