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Why we ask: a laid-off week and a thinking-about-a-move week look nothing alike. No résumé, no account.
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November 2026 rankings of cities and counties, with the data and method behind each.
Entry-level
#1 Lansing: 45%
AI
#1 Mountain View: 45%
Pay
#1 Foster City: $209k
Work style
#1 San Francisco: 3,412 openings
Growth
#1 Limestone County: +22.8%
Work style
#1 Eden Prairie: 45%
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Why: Each step covers something a hiring manager scores that a résumé alone cannot show.
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Exposure is the share of a job’s tasks that AI is already used for at work, from real usage across 756 occupations. It is not a forecast, and a low number means no use seen yet.
The openings we see, by AI exposure
Of the 812,881 openings we could place in an occupation.
Source: Anthropic Economic Index, March 2026.