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Metro Title Akron, OH Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY Albuquerque, NM Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ Ann Arbor, MI Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA Austin-Round Rock, TX Bakersfield, CA Baltimore-Towson, MD Baton Rouge, LA Birmingham-Hoover, AL Bloomington-Normal, IL Boise City-Nampa, ID Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH Boulder, CO Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, FL Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY Cedar Rapids, IA Champaign-Urbana, IL Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC Chicago-Naperville-Joliet, IL-IN-WI Cincinnati-Middletown, OH-KY-IN Cleveland-Elyria-Mentor, OH College Station-Bryan, TX Columbia, SC Columbus, IN Columbus, OH Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Dayton, OH Denver-Aurora, CO Des Moines, IA Detroit-Warren-Livonia, MI Durham, NC El Paso, TX Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO Gainesville, FL Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI Greensboro-High Point, NC Greenville-Mauldin-Easley, SC Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT Honolulu, HI Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX Indianapolis-Carmel, IN Iowa City, IA Jacksonville, FL Kansas City, MO-KS Knoxville, TN Lansing-East Lansing, MI Las Vegas-Paradise, NV Lexington-Fayette, KY

H-1B Demand (2010-2011 average) Demand 340 1,256 277 639 764 8,309 3,087 257 3,560 512 444 728 360 11,541 575 265 2,328 922 252 307 2,210 14,011 1,583 1,790 313 351 629 2,655 10,651 389 438 2,160 767 4,653 2,788 261 749 336 334 448 323 733 1,761 575 10,107 1,268 320 1,238 1,527 326 484 780 387 Demand Rank 83 39 100 61 54 12 19 105 17 69 75 58 81 7 64 101 23 48 106 94 25 6 34 30 93 82 62 21 8 78 76 26 53 14 20 103 55 84 88 74 90 57 31 64 9 38 91 41 36 89 71 52 79

H-1B Demand Intensity (2010- 2011 average) Intensity 1.06 2.84 0.73 1.89 3.87 3.63 3.94 0.94 2.73 1.38 0.88 7.84 1.37 4.75 3.57 1.07 5.67 1.69 1.77 2.74 2.72 3.26 1.58 1.78 3.04 0.97 14.60 2.89 3.65 2.10 1.15 1.79 2.37 2.66 9.79 0.86 3.55 2.58 0.90 1.30 1.07 2.25 2.76 1.18 3.93 1.43 3.44 2.05 1.53 0.99 2.18 0.96 1.50 Intensity Rank 89 29 105 54 14 17 12 99 32 74 102 6 75 11 19 86 8 62 60 31 33 24 64 59 27 97 2 28 16 46 84 58 43 37 3 103 20 39 100 79 87 44 30 83 13 71 21 50 66 96 45 98 68

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Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR 455 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Santa Ana, CA 18,048 Louisville, KY-IN 516 Madison, WI 848 Manchester-Nashua, NH 462 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX 290 Memphis, TN-MS-AR 1,152 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL 7,094 Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI 1,571 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI 4,199 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro, TN 1,065 New Haven-Milford, CT 955 New Orleans-Metairie-Kenner, LA 566 New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island, NY-NJ-PA 52,921 Oklahoma City, OK 585 Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA 710 Orlando-Kissimmee, FL 1,365 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA 827 Peoria, IL 656 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD 8,875 Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ 3,192 Pittsburgh, PA 2,370 Portland-South Portland-Biddeford, ME 282 Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA 2,096 Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY 284 Providence-New Bedford-Fall River, RI-MA 1,065 Provo-Orem, UT 257 Richmond, VA 1,648 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA 1,172 Rochester, MN 278 Rochester, NY 743 Sacramento--Arden-Arcade--Roseville, CA 1,759 Salinas, CA 283 Salt Lake City, UT 909 San Antonio, TX 1,251 San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA 4,529 San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA 16,333 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 14,926 Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, CA 335 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA 9,633 Springfield, MA 313 St. Louis, MO-IL 2,263 Syracuse, NY 335 Tallahassee, FL 335 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL 2,126 Toledo, OH 366 Trenton-Ewing, NJ 2,032 Tucson, AZ 486 Tulsa, OK 438 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC 560 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV 14,569 Wichita, KS 262 Worcester, MA 1,217 United States 325,522

73 2 68 50 72 95 44 13 35 16 45 47 66 1 63 59 37 51 60 11 18 22 98 28 96 45 104 33 43 99 56 32 97 49 40 15 3 4 87 10 92 24 85 85 27 80 29 70 77 67 5 102 42

1.29 3.41 0.85 2.38 2.38 1.27 1.92 3.20 1.91 2.44 1.41 2.68 1.07 6.32 1.01 1.50 1.35 2.72 3.60 3.24 1.86 2.08 1.06 2.09 1.10 1.55 1.37 2.66 1.00 2.60 1.45 2.09 1.64 1.47 1.39 3.33 8.41 17.10 1.79 5.60 1.05 1.71 1.06 1.94 1.86 1.21 8.46 1.33 1.04 0.67 4.76 0.89 3.74 2.40

80 22 104 41 42 81 52 26 53 40 72 35 88 7 94 67 77 34 18 25 55 49 90 48 85 65 76 36 95 38 70 47 63 69 73 23 5 1 57 9 92 61 91 51 56 82 4 78 93 106 10 101 15

Share of LCAs from Uncapped Employers Uncapped Share 23.7% 11.0% 23.7% 4.8% 46.7% 6.2% 6.4% 6.2% 18.7% 21.6% 38.2% 1.8% 7.5% 13.5% 18.0% 0.9% 2.5% 38.6% 1.8% 48.1% 2.1% 7.5% 11.4% 26.9% 67.2% 11.7% 0.7% 9.0% 4.1% 2.2% 11.0% 6.9% 0.7% 6.0% 22.7% 20.5% 6.9% 62.1% 8.5% 7.3% 1.7% 12.6% 8.4% 24.6% 9.0% 11.6% 62.3% 4.2% 9.8% 48.6% 22.7% 6.8% 29.8% Uncapped Rank 24 53 23 87 7 78 75 76 31 28 10 99 68 45 33 103 96 9 100 6 98 69 51 17 2 49 105 64 92 97 52 71 104 79 25 30 72 4 65 70 101 47 66 22 63 50 3 91 57 5 26 73 15

Share of LCAs for Workers in STEM STEM Share 65.6% 86.3% 53.7% 70.7% 66.4% 74.2% 75.6% 43.5% 61.4% 51.0% 63.4% 94.8% 81.9% 70.7% 72.3% 38.7% 58.7% 45.9% 80.6% 71.1% 80.7% 65.8% 73.8% 60.0% 60.0% 69.7% 88.8% 82.1% 73.7% 87.4% 75.3% 74.5% 79.9% 65.9% 83.8% 37.8% 86.3% 55.4% 66.9% 63.7% 76.9% 77.4% 74.5% 37.9% 64.7% 69.0% 59.2% 77.7% 75.6% 70.1% 74.3% 47.5% 64.0% STEM Rank 66 7 87 50 62 39 30 100 77 92 75 1 14 51 44 101 82 97 18 49 16 65 40 79 80 55 2 12 41 4 32 35 19 64 9 103 6 84 60 74 25 24 34 102 71 57 81 22 29 54 38 94 73

Total Unemployment, 2010 12.0% 8.1% 8.6% 10.8% 10.2% 13.2% 8.3% 14.6% 8.9% 8.9% 11.6% 7.1% 10.5% 9.5% 8.9% 14.0% 10.7% 9.7% 5.2% 8.0% 13.5% 12.2% 10.3% 11.6% 8.5% 11.5% 6.1% 10.2% 9.1% 7.3% 11.3% 9.9% 6.3% 17.0% 10.9% 9.2% 7.9% 10.4% 12.0% 12.6% 11.4% 6.8% 10.4% 6.4% 8.9% 10.5% 6.0% 11.8% 8.6% 8.7% 11.2% 14.1% 10.9%

Educated (BA+) Unemployment, 2010 4.6% 4.0% 3.6% 5.5% 4.6% 6.3% 4.4% 4.0% 3.3% 2.6% 4.7% 2.8% 5.0% 4.9% 5.4% 7.6% 6.1% 4.4% 2.0% 2.0% 6.0% 6.0% 3.8% 4.7% 1.9% 4.8% 3.0% 4.0% 4.6% 2.6% 4.5% 5.2% 2.4% 7.0% 4.5% 5.0% 5.4% 4.4% 4.3% 7.2% 3.0% 2.7% 5.1% 2.7% 4.4% 4.1% 2.9% 5.4% 3.7% 3.5% 4.3% 6.7% 4.8%

30.4% 5.8% 14.2% 22.2% 1.0% 12.2% 18.1% 4.6% 10.0% 5.9% 16.4% 40.5% 17.1% 5.9% 25.3% 17.6% 4.5% 0.2% 6.2% 10.5% 4.5% 25.1% 2.5% 5.7% 8.1% 15.3% 9.1% 6.8% 9.9% 70.5% 25.5% 12.6% 37.3% 16.2% 9.1% 9.1% 5.0% 2.6% 16.3% 3.5% 21.4% 17.0% 25.5% 34.8% 6.0% 29.9% 9.3% 27.8% 4.9% 17.8% 9.3% 14.3% 14.7% 9.7%

13 83 44 27 102 48 32 88 55 82 38 8 36 81 20 35 89 106 77 54 90 21 95 84 67 41 60 74 56 1 19 46 11 40 61 62 85 94 39 93 29 37 18 12 80 14 58 16 86 34 59 43 42

53.1% 52.0% 69.4% 83.9% 63.1% 19.0% 70.5% 35.2% 76.6% 80.8% 71.2% 60.9% 47.3% 51.6% 51.3% 75.1% 47.3% 80.6% 87.6% 73.3% 75.7% 72.6% 76.1% 82.0% 65.3% 65.0% 65.6% 77.5% 47.6% 57.8% 69.0% 83.5% 28.8% 71.2% 66.2% 79.6% 75.5% 86.9% 65.5% 78.2% 44.4% 74.5% 55.1% 74.3% 71.2% 67.2% 83.4% 54.0% 70.6% 44.5% 64.4% 66.7% 71.3% 64.3%

88 89 56 8 76 106 53 104 26 15 47 78 96 90 91 33 95 17 3 42 28 43 27 13 69 70 67 23 93 83 58 10 105 46 63 20 31 5 68 21 99 36 85 37 48 59 11 86 52 98 72 61 45

8.3% 12.1% 10.9% 6.6% 8.1% 10.8% 12.7% 13.4% 10.4% 8.8% 10.0% 10.9% 11.1% 10.4% 7.7% 7.3% 12.5% 10.2% 9.6% 10.6% 11.5% 8.7% 7.4% 12.5% 9.3% 11.5% 9.6% 9.1% 16.3% 5.2% 8.3% 13.8% 11.4% 9.7% 8.7% 11.3% 10.8% 11.3% 11.2% 10.4% 10.3% 10.6% 8.7% 11.7% 13.2% 14.0% 10.7% 11.5% 8.5% 8.5% 7.8% 10.0% 11.4% 10.80%

2.3% 7.1% 4.1% 3.7% 3.5% 3.5% 3.7% 7.4% 4.5% 4.6% 4.4% 4.2% 3.5% 5.9% 3.6% 2.6% 5.9% 6.2% 3.2% 4.8% 5.0% 3.8% 3.7% 6.1% 5.3% 5.6% 5.3% 4.3% 7.3% 1.5% 4.4% 5.3% 6.9% 4.7% 3.8% 6.6% 6.5% 7.2% 5.0% 5.2% 5.4% 4.0% 4.3% 2.9% 6.7% 4.5% 5.3% 4.0% 3.3% 3.2% 3.8% 4.0% 4.9% 5.0%