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Business and Financial Operations Occupations

Overview

This category spans a wide range of professions and has a high concentration of employment in the professional & business services and financial activities sectors. Workers in these occupations position conduct resource valuation or diligence in relation to an individual’s or a corporation’s business operations. Jobs in this category include accounting, cost estimating, insurance underwriting, logistics, and financial analysis.

Findings

Among the 28 major metropolitan areas monitored by Monster's Employment Index, Pittsburgh was the only one to exhibit positive year over year growth in online demand for business and financial operations occupations. Washington D.C. and Baltimore continue to show the most severe annual contraction. 

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