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Job Market Diversification Reports

About this report series

Between Q4 2017 and Q1 2019, LinkUp published a quarterly Job Market Diversification Report that assessed job market resilience using LinkUp's extensive job listing data and exclusive statistical methodology. As of Q2 2019, in lieu of this series, we began publishing a quarterly Economic Indicator Report.

2019 Reports

2018 Reports

2017 Reports

Methodology

The Job Market Diversification Report provides a composite score measuring the variety of job opportunities within 200 Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) by industry, company, and job category. Cities are scored on a scale out of a possible 160 points, with higher score indicating more job market diversification. 

Job diversification is measured across:

Number of industries with job openings.

Number of companies with job openings.

Number of job categories with job openings.