Don't tell this to your out-of-work neighbor. But Seattle is one of the easiest cities in the country right now to find a job. The Emerald City -- home to Amazon.com, Starbucks, Microsoft and others -- ranked 14th on the Juju.com Job Search Difficulty Index. And for all of those negative nellies who think the Bay Area or Portland are such much cooler, consider this:

San Francisco ranked 21st on the list of the top 50 U.S. cities, while Portland came in at a dismal 42nd place. The hardest place to find work shouldn't come as a surprise. That dubious honor fell to the rust belt city of Detroit, which had a whopping 20 unemployed people per advertised job.

Compare that to Seattle, which had 5.1 unemployed people per advertised job. In fact, based on the Juju analysis, it looks like Seattle is moving up. The December report ranked Seattle 18th and found 5.33 unemployed people per advertised job.

The easiest places to find to work, according to the survey, are Washington D.C., San Jose, Baltimore, Salt Lake City and New York.

Juju said it came up with the ranking by dividing the number of unemployed workers in each metro area from Bureau of Labor Statistics by the number of jobs in Juju's index of online jobs in the United States.

We'll see where the employment picture is headed tomorrow when Washington state releases unemployment numbers for the month of December. In November, the unemployment rate stood at 9.2 percent in the state, which was just below the national average.

Soource: Juju.com

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