The surprise for me is the cities that were not part of it: NYC, Washington DC area, some tech cities in Colorado and Austin.
It just goes to show you that our intuitions about some of these things are flat out wrong.
It just goes to show you that our intuitions about some of these things are flat out wrong.
For example, Silicon Valley and San Francisco gained a huge number. However, Madison Wisconsin was in the top ten and is a much smaller metro area. Washington lost 7k but it's a big metro - especially compared to Wichita.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/business/economy/innovati...
And North Carolina is just weird - Durham lost 6k but Raleigh gained 12k? Are people just moving from Durham County to Wake County?
From the NYtimes piece it looks like they use absolute numbers but the study itself seems to run a mix of analyses including absolute, % change etc.
Their definition of an innovation job might have something to do with it, too.
Even Apple's huge new campus in Austin is going to be manufacturing, sales and customer support; the actual tech jobs are staying in Cupertino. It's just cheaper to hire for non-tech positions outside the bay area. So tech companies from the bay area use Austin as a tax haven to cut the costs of non-technical work, but the jobs aren't tech jobs.