Handshake is a major jobs portal for college students seeking full time employment. They recently released a report about job trends for the class of 2024. There was a notable shift in job applications away from big cities this year compared to last, with the notable exception of New York City. New York saw a substantial increase in job applications from the class of 2024 compared to the class of 2023. Among big cities, the major Sun Belt cities in the southeast and Texas showed some of the biggest declines in job applicants between 2023 and 2024:
Increase in share of new college grad applicants in 2024 by city (% share of all applications in parenthesis)- New York (9.12%): +1.35 pts
- Washington (3.01%): +0.52
- Baltimore (0.77%): +0.13
- Portland (0.68%): +0.1
- Orlando (0.79%): +0.06
- Tampa (1.24%): +0.03
- Miami (1.21%): -0.03
- Cincinnati (0.92%): -0.05
- San Antonio (0.67%): -0.06
- Sacramento (0.72%): -0.06
- Detroit (0.89%): -0.07
- St. Louis (0.81%): -0.14
- San Francisco (2.58%): -0.16
- Minneapolis (1.00%): -0.18
- Chicago (4.80%): -0.19
- Boston (2.92%): -0.2
- Phoenix (1.10%): -0.22
- Los Angeles (2.32%): -0.25
- San Diego (0.95%): -0.27
- Charlotte (1.35%): -0.27
- Pittsburgh (0.86%): -0.28
- Philadelphia (1.47%): -0.3
- Austin (1.85%): -0.33
- Dallas (3.01%): -0.35
- Seattle (1.59%): -0.35
- Houston (2.10%): -0.42
- Denver (1.42%): -0.42
- Atlanta (2.97%): -0.46
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Edit: Note that these percentage changes are job applications by city limits not metro area, but I listed the central cities of the 30 largest metros (minus Riverside).
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