“You’ll have almost zero competition to land a ‘highly paid’ job in these 10 cities”

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Here are the cities with the least competition for highly paid jobs:

1. Parkersburg, West Virginia: high-salary jobs pay $72,051 or more
2. Nampa, Idaho: high-salary jobs pay $83,200 or more
3. Butte, Montana: high-salary jobs pay $86,154 or more
4. Sitka, Alaska: high-salary jobs pay $106,496 or more
5. Grand Island, Nebraska: high-salary jobs pay $83,574 or more
6. Kearney, Nebraska: high-salary jobs pay $78,333 or more
7. Dover, New Hampshire: high-salary jobs pay $81,702 or more
8. Laredo, Texas: high-salary jobs pay$66,269 or more
9. Morgantown, West Virginia: high-salary jobs pay $80,163 or more
10. Olathe, Kansas: high-salary jobs pay $92,809 or more

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“The salaries of the high-paying jobs are relative to the median salaries in each state or city, so the competition rates are more reflective of a lack of candidates rather than it being a lower-paying market,” says Taylor Tomita, senior outreach specialist at NeoMam Studios, a creative marketing agency that works with Career.io…”

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/13/this-city-has-the-least-competition-for-a-highly-paid-job-heres-why.html