Glassdoor Names Indianapolis Second Best City For Jobs In U.S.

INDIANAPOLIS, IN — If you work in Indianapolis, you're clocking career hours in the second-best city in the country for jobs, according to Glassdoor. The job search website released its "25 Best Cities for Jobs 2017" list, putting only Pittsburgh in front of Indianapolis. How were these rankings determined? There were a few details Glassdoor measured.

Glassdoor took popular metro areas in the U.S. and looked at their median base salary, job satisfaction, median home value (cost of living) and job openings. The job search engine graded each category on a five-point scale, and even listed the hottest jobs for that area, which are machine operator, marketing manager and development and operations (DevOps) engineer.

Indy's total? 3.3 out of 5 on Glassdoor, as our metro area's median base salary for available jobs is $43,000, median home value is $138,000, and there are more than 80,500 job openings.

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Interested in where other metro areas landed in the rankings? Here's Glassdoor's 25 Best Cities for Jobs 2017:

1. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2. Indianapolis, Indiana
3. Kansas City, Missouri
4. Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
5. St. Louis, Missouri
6. Memphis, Tennessee
7. Columbus, Ohio
8. Cincinnati, Ohio
9. Cleveland, Ohio
10. Louisville, Kentucky
11. Birmingham, Alabama
12. Detroit, Michigan
13. Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota
14. Hartford, Connecticut
15. Oklahoma City
16. Washington, D.C.
17. Seattle, Washington
18. Atlanta, Georgia
19. Baltimore, Maryland
20. Nashville, Tennessee
21. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
22. San Jose, California
23. Chicago, Illinois
24. Charlotte, North Carolina
25. Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas

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