Justin Fox, Columnist

Want a Job? Go West (and South)

The South and big metro areas are also where it's at.

January 25, 2017 at 4:25 PM UTC

Justin Fox is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering business, economics and other topics involving charts. A former editorial director of the Harvard Business Review, he is author of “The Myth of the Rational Market.”

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And the award for top job creator among the states in 2016 goes to ... Florida, which edged out Oregon.

In percentage terms, that is. In absolute numbers, the growth leader is California, which posted an estimated 342,200 more nonfarm payroll jobs in December 2016 than in December 2015. But with 12 percent of the nation's population, the Golden State has sort of a built-in advantage in that metric.