Top Ten Relocation Cities for IT Pros
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New York
Companies based there include the top TV networks, the major stock exchanges, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, IBM and MTV. -
Los Angeles
Companies based there include Rocketdyne, NetZero and, of course, entertainment and movie studios galore. -
San Francisco area
Companies based there include Wells Fargo, Google, Riverbed Technology, Dropbox, Facebook, Twitter and Lucasfilm. -
Dallas-Fort Worth
Companies based there include Neiman Marcus, AT&T, Texas Instruments and Affiliated Computer Services. -
Atlanta
Companies based there include BellSouth, Coca-Cola, MindSpring and Turner Broadcasting System. -
Houston
Companies based there include ConocoPhillips, KBR, BMC Software, Alert Logic and Halliburton. -
Philadelphia
Companies based there include Unisys, Tastykake, Sunoco and Comcast. -
Chicago
Companies based there include Motorola Solutions, Morningstar, MillerCoors, E-Loan and Zebra Technologies. -
Boston
Companies based there include Fidelity, Boston Medical Center, John Hancock, Boston University and Liberty Mutual. -
Washington, D.C.
Companies based there include C-SPAN, LivingSocial, Blackboard, COMSAT, Metalogix, AOL and almost everything related to the federal government.
Given the rising level of competition among companies for tech talent, IT professionals have more leverage than ever to land a great job. However, they may need—or want—to relocate for that position. Nationwide, 35 percent of job applications are sent from workers who are applying for positions that are distant from their current location, according to an analysis based on the 6 million member database of TheLadders, a job matching service. "Locations have always played a key role in the availability of certain types of jobs," wrote Shankar Mishra, vice president of data science and analytics at TheLadders, in a blog that accompanies the findings. "Detroit became the hub of the automotive industry in the early twentieth century; San Francisco attracted technology companies; New York City focused on financial, media and now technology companies. … The reality of the job market is that the right job isn't always available within a commutable distance." Ultimately, he wrote, people will go where the jobs are—and IT pros are no exception. The following 10 cities, which are home to a wide range of industries, were the top relocation choices of technology workers in TheLadders' database.