| By Jeff Sherman OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writer Photography by Jeff Sherman E-mail author | Author bio More articles by Jeff Sherman |
| Published Aug. 27, 2008 at 12:20 p.m. |
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Forbes.com has published yet another list, and this one ranks Milwaukee as the ninth best city in the United States to earn a living. Houston was No. 1.
As part of the Aug. 18 story, Matt Woolsey wrote:
"There is far more to Milwaukee than a bottling job at the Miller Brewing Company. Despite the city's proximity to the northern Midwest, Milwaukee has a below-average unemployment rate of 5.3%, a median salary at $55,600 that ranks it at about the national median, and a low cost of living."
Forbes looked at "at the country's 40 largest census-defined metros and gauged the quality of the business environment by how many of the Forbes' 400 best big companies and 200 best small companies were headquartered there."
Forbes also looked "at each metro's median incomes, collected from the U.S. Census Bureau, compared them to cost of living (provided by the Council for Community and Economic Research), and factored in job-growth forecasts from Moody's Economy.com."
This is the third time in less than two months that Forbes has recognized Milwaukee. On July 9 Forbes ranked Milwaukee No. 9 in its "Best Cities For Young Professionals" list, beating out such places as Seattle, Denver, Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles. On June 30, the Milwaukee region claimed two of the top 10 spots as Forbes declared Ozaukee and Waukesha counties as the second and eighth "Best Places in the U.S. to raise a family."
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