To determine the overall hottest and coldest labor markets, The Wall Street Journal looked at the 53 metro areas with more than 1 million people. The Journal’s ranking is based on five attributes: average unemployment rate in 2018; labor-force participation rate in 2018; the change in employment and change in labor force for the fourth quarter of 2018 from a year earlier; and the change in average weekly wage in the first half of 2018 from the first half 2017, reflecting the latest available wage data. The area with the...

Source: Wall Street Journal March 01, 2019 11:48 UTC