Pennsylvania City Ranks Top 10 for STEM Professionals: Study

 

If you work in STEM and live in Pennsylvania, you are in luck.

One city in the state of Keystone ranked in the top 10 in the US for STEM professionals.

Financial website WalletHub conducted and published a study that sought to find the best and worst cities for those working in STEM (which stands for science, technology, engineering, and math) in 2023.

They were able to do this by first establishing three key parameters by which to rank the nation’s 100 most populous cities: “Occupational Opportunities”; “STEM-friendliness”; and Quality of Life.

Each of them was then weighted by their respective metrics – “STEM graduate jobs per capita” and “Math performance” among them – to create their final ranking.

Pittsburgh managed to break into the top 10 of the rankings at number seven, and also made it into the top 20 when it came only to STEM-friendliness and Quality of Life.

Other cities in Pennsylvania weren’t too bad either: Philadelphia was ranked 31st; Allentown number 36; and Harrisburg number 41.

Scranton, on the other hand, was mentioned towards the end: the city of Lackawanna County can be found in cell number 76, although, interestingly enough, it ranks third in Quality of Life.

“STEM workers are in high demand, and not just in the global high-tech epicenter known as Silicon Valley,” the study says.

“Given the growing demand, STEM careers provide some of the most lucrative employment opportunities today,” he continues. “They pay higher wages and have far fewer threats of unemployment compared to other types of jobs.”

Seattle, Washington was named the best city for STEM professions, and Jackson, Mississippi was named the worst.

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