Wednesday, March 25, 2009

BizJournal.com ranked Raleigh, NC #1 Best Place to Launch a Small Business, AND...


Counts the Raleigh-Cary market among a small group of Metropolitan Statistical
Areas that ADDED JOBS in the fourth quarter of 2008, says a study released Monday.



Bizjournals used a six-part formula to analyze the nation''s 100 largest metropolitan areas, noting population growth between 2002 and 2007, employment growth from 2003 to 2008, small-business growth from 2005 to 2006 and small-business population. Bizjournals defines a small business as any private-sector employer with 99 or fewer employees.

The country's top five rankings went to Raleigh, N.C.; Charlotte, N.C.; Seattle, Wash.; Austin, Texas; and Boise, Idaho.

Not only that, Bizjournals counts the Raleigh-Cary market among an ELITE small group of Metropolitan Statistical Areas that added jobs in the fourth quarter of 2008, says a study released Monday.

The number of jobs in the Raleigh-Cary MSA, which comprises Wake, Johnston and Franklin counties, increased by 3,500 from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to a bizjournals analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Bizjournals is part of American City Business Journals, the parent company of Triangle Business Journal.
Raleigh's total of 434,100 jobs in the fourth quarter of 2008 gave the MSA a 0.8 percent gain year-over-year and a 21.6 percent gain (a whopping 77,000) job gain since 2003.

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