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Of the eight cities where you would need the highest salaries, six are located in California.
Here they are in descending order of rate of growth.
Phoenix
2.
Fort Worth, Texas
3.
Austin, Texas
4.
Jacksonville, Florida
5.
San Antonio
6.
Charlotte
7.
Las Vegas
8.
Seattle
9.
Oklahoma City
10.
Mesa, Arizona
11.
Bakersfield, California
12.
Sacramento, California
13.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
14.
Columbus, Ohio
15.
Denver
16.
Kansas City, Missouri
17.
Raleigh, North Carolina
18.
Houston
19.
Tucson, Arizona
20.
Miami
21.
Fresno, California
22.
Atlanta
23.
Indianapolis
24.
Minneapolis
25.
Nashville, Tennessee
26.
Wichita, Kansas
27.
Tulsa, Oklahoma
28.
Arlington, Texas
29.
Omaha, Nebraska
30.
El Paso, Texas
31.
Dallas
32.
Oakland, California
33.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
34.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
35.
Portland, Oregon
36.
Louisville, Kentucky
37.
San Diego
38.
Philadelphia
39.
Memphis, Tennessee
40.
Long Beach, California
41.
Milwaukee
42.
Boston
43.
Baltimore
44.
Detroit
45.
San Jose, California
46.
Washington, D.C.
47.
San Francisco
48.
Chicago
49.
Los Angeles
50.
Average single-family home values from July 2024 and July 2023 were sourced from the Zillow Home Value Index.
Cost-of-living indexes were sourced from BestPlaces.
The national average expenditure costs for all residents were sourced from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Consumer Expenditure Survey.
Mortgage and expenditure costs were used to calculate the cost of living for each city.
One-year changes for population, households, and income were calculated for each city.
The cities were sorted by year-over-year population growth.
All data was collected on and is up to date as of Sept. 10, 2024.
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