Boise Ranked A Top Place For Summer Jobs

BOISE, ID - If you're a teenager - or anyone - looking for a job this summer, Boise might be one of the best places to do it. According to research by the personal finance website WalletHub, Boise came in No. 14 on a list of the top 20 U.S. cities to find a summer job. Boise beat out much larger cities like Boston, Las Vegas, and San Diego.

Are you looking for a job in the Boise area? Are you trying to hire summer employees in Boise? Check out Patch.com's Boise job listings, where you can search and post.

To create the list, WalletHub took the 150 largest job markets in the country and then rated them based on 21 metrics including affordability, rental prices, labor force participation rate, and general availability of summer jobs. Read the full methodology here.

One factor that helped Boise was its relative affordability in terms of social activities and housing. Here's the full top 20 rankings:

1. Orlando, FL
2. Scottsdale, AZ
3. Fort Lauderdale, FL
4. Salt Lake City, UT
5. San Francisco, CA
6. Portland, OR
7. Atlanta, GA
8. Modesto, CA
9. Nashville, TN
10. Cincinnati, OH
11. Seattle, WA
12. Miami, FL
13. Denver, CO
14. Boise, ID
15. Washington, DC
16. Minneapolis, MN
17. Madison, WI
18. Irvine, CA
19. Grand Rapids, MI
20. Plano, TX

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