Wisconsin City Named One Of The Best Places In The Country To Find A Job In 2025

If you are in the market for a new job in 2025, one Wisconsin city is among the best places in the entire country for job hunters this year.

In a new piece of research out from the website WalletHub, they identified the top 182 cities across the country for getting a new job.

One place in Wisconsin not only scored way better than anywhere else in the Upper Midwest, it also came in as one of the best in the entire country.

How was it determined where is a good city to find a job?

WalletHub used a variety of factors within the job markets of cities across the country. Factors they considered included things like monthly average starting salary, unemployment rate, job satisfaction, and job security.

They emphasized some areas more than others, including things like employment growth in the city and the overall volume of job opportunities in the city.

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Additional factors that they also considered when scoring cities are things like housing affordability, family friendliness, and transportation/commute factors.

Where is the best place in Wisconsin to find a job?

The research identified Madison, Wisconsin as not only one of the top places in the Upper Midwest but also across the country for finding a job in 2025.

Madison ranked as the 15th best place in the entire country, leading other regional cities like Milwaukee (ranked 99th), Minneapolis (ranked 27th), St. Paul (ranked 54th), and Chicago (ranked 120th)

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Breaking down the findings, the job market itself in Madison is ranked a little lower, but socio-economic factors like commute & transportation, safety, family & dating friendliness, and housing affordability are among the best in the country (ranked 3rd overall), propelling Madison to its #15 score overall on the list of best places to find a job in the country in 2025.