RI City Named 1 Of The Easiest Places To Land A High-Paying Job

WARWICK, RI — One of the least competitive high-paying job markets in the entire country is right here in Rhode Island, according to a new analysis from Career.io.

Using publicly available data from LinkedIn, the career platform ranked every U.S. state and the largest cities based on the number of daily applications for local, high-paying jobs — which were defined as jobs that pay double the local average wage.

Coming in at number 15 on the platform's list of the 20 least competitive cities for high-paying jobs is Warwick, Rhode Island, which only sees an average of 0.044 applicants per high-paying job each day, according to the analysis.

For comparison, the city with the most competitive market — Salt Lake City, Utah — has around 34.9 applications per day for each high-paying job. Meanwhile, Parkersburg, West Virginia is the big city with the least competitive market for high-paying jobs, with virtually zero applications in Career.io's data set for December.

"The salaries of the high-paying jobs are relative to the median salaries in each state or city, so the competition rates are more reflective of a lack of candidates rather than it being a lower-paying market," Taylor Tomita, senior outreach specialist at NeoMam Studios told NBC News.

In general, the most common highly paid but not competitive jobs are in health care and sales, Tomita added.

The cities with the fewest applicants per highly paid job tend to be in low-density states focusing on agriculture, according to Career.io.

For example, Parkersburg had 52 high-paying job listings at the time of Career.io's analysis in December, though not one of them had a single application, Tomita added.