These Are The 10 Best Cities For Editors

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Whether you’re just starting out your career, or looking to make a move, it can be important to know what part of the country offers the best chance for your long term career prospects. And for a very common profession like Editors, the regional differences can have a big impact on your salary and career options.

To help you make the best decision possible, we at Zippia wanted to look at the cities that offer editors the most for their career. These are the cities across the US where editors get paid well, relative to the cost of living, and jobs are plentiful.

So we did what we do best and dove into the numbers from the BLS to figure out which cities have the best opportunities for editors.The result is this list of the best cities editors:

So there you have it — Boulder is the best city when it comes to being a editor.

And where should you consider avoiding if you’re a editor? That would be Bakersfield.

Read on to see how we completed our research on the best cities for editors and for more on the top ten cities.

How we determined the best cities to be a editors?

Here at Zippia, we talk to a lot of people of all different backgrounds looking for jobs. Our research has concluded that there are two common things people want in a job:

Availability of jobs
Pay

So in order to find out the best cities for editors in America we needed to figure out where the jobs are and how well editors get paid. This led to the following criteria taken from the Bureau of Labor Statistics’s Occupational Employment Statistics for 2015:

Location quotient. A measure of how common a job is a given city.
Average annual salary.
Average annual salary for entry level work.

To make all the salary numbers more apples to apples across cities, we compared the salary data relative to the state’s cost of living.

This left us with enough data for 217 metro areas across the country. We then took the primary area of the metro and labeled that the ‘city’ for this analysis. So, for example, “Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA NECTA Division” became simply Boston.

In order to develop an overall ranking, we ranked each city for each criteria from 1 to 217 where 1 was the best.

We then averaged all the rankings for a city into a Job Score with the city having the lowest overall Job Score earning the distinction of being the best city for editors in America.

So without further ado, let’s get into just what made each city so great for editors.

1. Boulder, CO

Total Jobs: 340
Average Annual Salary: $73,300
Average Entry Level Salary: $40,340
Location Quotient: 2.86

2. New York, NY

Total Jobs: 17,920
Average Annual Salary: $83,270
Average Entry Level Salary: $38,750
Location Quotient: 3.95

3. Charlottesville, VA

Total Jobs: 520
Average Annual Salary: $69,420
Average Entry Level Salary: $36,980
Location Quotient: 7.1

4. Columbia, MO

Total Jobs: 150
Average Annual Salary: $54,230
Average Entry Level Salary: $40,970
Location Quotient: 2.3

5. West Palm Beach, FL

Total Jobs: 510
Average Annual Salary: $71,280
Average Entry Level Salary: $40,990
Location Quotient: 1.3

6. Trenton, NJ

Total Jobs: 220
Average Annual Salary: $72,050
Average Entry Level Salary: $43,070
Location Quotient: 1.44

7. Oxnard, CA

Total Jobs: 210
Average Annual Salary: $81,040
Average Entry Level Salary: $44,970
Location Quotient: 1.02

8. Bloomington, IN

Total Jobs: 100
Average Annual Salary: $54,420
Average Entry Level Salary: $40,800
Location Quotient: 2.2

9. San Francisco, CA

Total Jobs: 1,310
Average Annual Salary: $82,680
Average Entry Level Salary: $35,340
Location Quotient: 1.83

10. Seattle, WA

Total Jobs: 1,420
Average Annual Salary: $71,190
Average Entry Level Salary: $34,620
Location Quotient: 1.32

And that’s our list of the best cities for editors

If you’re looking to start out your career as a editor these are the cities that should be at the top of your list. You’ll find high pay, available jobs, and chances for career advancement.

If you’re curious, here are the worst cities to be a editor in America:

Detailed List Of The Best Cities For Editors

Rank	State	Average Salary	Entry Level Salary	# Of People
1	Boulder, CO	$73,300	$40,340	340
2	New York, NY	$83,270	$38,750	17,920
3	Charlottesville, VA	$69,420	$36,980	520
4	Columbia, MO	$54,230	$40,970	150
5	West Palm Beach, FL	$71,280	$40,990	510
6	Trenton, NJ	$72,050	$43,070	220
7	Oxnard, CA	$81,040	$44,970	210
8	Bloomington, IN	$54,420	$40,800	100
9	San Francisco, CA	$82,680	$35,340	1,310
10	Seattle, WA	$71,190	$34,620	1,420
11	Silver Spring, MD	$69,360	$39,740	860
12	Newark, NJ	$87,150	$47,330	700
13	Lincoln, NE	$68,820	$33,370	110
14	Boston, MA	$77,450	$34,110	2,770
15	Orlando, FL	$66,760	$34,580	790
16	Santa Fe, NM	$52,040	$40,230	70
17	Durham, NC	$55,280	$34,890	310
18	Bellingham, WA	$60,130	$32,830	90
19	Philadelphia, PA	$63,820	$29,760	850
20	Des Moines, IA	$54,420	$32,200	410
21	Minneapolis, MN	$60,520	$31,840	2,520
22	Los Angeles, CA	$77,140	$32,630	4,060
23	San Rafael, CA	$74,940	$32,540	110
24	Norwich, CT	$72,580	$34,590	130
25	Peabody, MA	$63,930	$39,670	100
26	Palm Bay, FL	$72,230	$34,580	100
27	Chicago, IL	$58,580	$32,250	3,710
28	Lake County, IL	$69,210	$40,580	180
29	Ann Arbor, MI	$60,410	$32,000	130
30	Detroit, MI	$73,030	$40,440	270
31	Dallas, TX	$60,290	$33,620	1,150
32	Kansas City, MO	$66,470	$25,930	660
33	Austin, TX	$55,790	$29,970	640
34	Spokane, WA	$63,680	$31,640	130
35	Huntsville, AL	$73,440	$41,450	70
36	Houston, TX	$67,720	$38,450	1,050
37	Sioux Falls, SD	$61,360	$39,920	50
38	Framingham, MA	$79,050	$50,260	60
39	Miami, FL	$65,050	$34,750	540
40	Nassau County, NY	$71,200	$33,110	990
41	Ogden, UT	$58,850	$41,130	90
42	St. Louis, MO	$59,160	$37,920	500
43	Montgomery County, PA	$63,810	$28,160	670
44	Burlington, VT	$57,190	$30,960	110
45	Tulsa, OK	$60,060	$27,240	260
46	Nashville, TN	$58,130	$28,960	480
47	Gainesville, FL	$54,610	$36,450	80
48	Louisville/Jefferson County, KY	$52,970	$29,500	290
49	Akron, OH	$51,580	$33,050	170
50	Athens, GA	$48,990	$31,690	60
51	Lawrence, KS	$45,890	$30,450	80
52	Rochester, NY	$70,680	$31,740	400
53	Camden, NJ	$73,000	$45,130	150
54	San Jose, CA	$87,750	$30,150	630
55	Tallahassee, FL	$50,190	$33,290	180
56	Albany, NY	$62,950	$32,870	570
57	Fort Collins, CO	$56,140	$33,250	100
58	Blacksburg, VA	$55,850	$33,700	50
59	Fort Worth, TX	$60,890	$35,540	320
60	Dover, NH	$47,620	$41,230	50
61	Baltimore, MD	$60,900	$33,490	970
62	Santa Rosa, CA	$65,650	$40,900	80
63	Port St. Lucie, FL	$65,730	$41,590	30
64	Little Rock, AR	$49,520	$31,110	150
65	College Station, TX	$53,300	$27,540	70
66	Rockford, IL	$61,400	$35,730	60
67	Iowa City, IA	$42,440	$30,280	150
68	Pittsburgh, PA	$55,990	$32,800	520
69	Dayton, OH	$56,110	$24,990	210
70	San Antonio, TX	$53,110	$27,890	580
71	Las Cruces, NM	$52,530	$28,610	40
72	Ithaca, NY	$57,720	$32,840	100
73	Charlotte, NC	$62,270	$29,070	470
74	South Bend, IN	$54,790	$35,440	40
75	Bremerton, WA	$53,560	$38,480	40
76	Jacksonville, FL	$54,520	$35,610	290
77	Utica, NY	$72,580	$31,740	70
78	New Orleans, LA	$55,260	$37,250	170
79	Ocala, FL	$59,450	$34,500	40
80	Columbus, OH	$54,210	$19,560	980
81	Asheville, NC	$57,540	$27,630	100
82	Cleveland, OH	$52,730	$27,320	470
83	Fayetteville, AR	$42,990	$28,550	140
84	Springfield, IL	$56,290	$34,400	50
85	Salinas, CA	$54,920	$33,680	120
86	San Diego, CA	$67,250	$32,300	660
87	Sacramento, CA	$68,070	$35,100	320
88	Denver, CO	$59,180	$28,470	930
89	Santa Maria, CA	$56,800	$33,490	120
90	Champaign, IL	$47,280	$28,960	150
91	Lowell, MA	$68,530	$44,610	30
92	Stockton, CA	$68,680	$37,500	60
93	Nashua, NH	$74,400	$30,170	50
94	Provo, UT	$51,510	$20,710	250
95	Bridgeport, CT	$59,560	$32,650	300
96	Salt Lake City, UT	$57,160	$21,810	410
97	Cape Coral, FL	$69,900	$27,490	100
98	Charleston, WV	$41,760	$25,660	80
99	Albuquerque, NM	$54,870	$23,630	240
100	Greenville, SC	$55,060	$28,340	120

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Author

Chris Kolmar

Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.

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