A recent survey conducted by Glassdoor, the famous jobs and career website, found the top cities where employees are the happiest.
For the research, Glassdoor surveyed more than 500,000 employees in over 50 metropolitan areas in the U.S. This is the second annual "Employee Satisfaction report Card by City" survey and is based on local employee feedback over the past 12 months.
Below is the list of the top five cities where employees are the most satisfied:
1. San Jose, Calif.
San Jose, Calif., grabbed the top spot on the list for the second time in a row with an overall 3.5 out of 5.0 in the job satisfaction rating scale. Online retail website e-Bay and Stanford University jobs were the highest rated employers in the city.
2. San Francisco, Calif.,
San Francisco, the tech hub of the United States came in second in the list with a 3.4 job satisfaction rating. Twitter, Genentech and Riverbed Technologies were the highest rated companies in the city.
3. Washington D.C.
Washington D.C. secured the third place in the list with a 3.4 job satisfaction rating. The Capital city's government agencies and educational institutes including the National Institute of Health and American University offered the best amenities.
4. Norfolk, Va.
Norfolk came in fourth with a 3.4 job satisfaction rating. There is strong military presence in the city with the U.S. Air Force and Navy being rated the highest.
5. Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City came in fifth on the list with a job satisfaction rating of 3.4. University of Utah, Intermountain Healthcare and Fusion-io were the highest rated employers.
You can see the full list of cities here. In a separate study, Nerdwallet.com revealed that Aurora, Colo., was the best city for women to work in.
"Aurora's aerospace, defense, healthcare, bioscience and renewable energy industries are great draws for educated workers looking for great careers," Kim Stuart, a spokesperson for the city, told the Business Journal.
Glassdoor also recently ranked companies on the basis of pay and employee benefits. Google grabbed the top spot with Costco and Facebook following the search engine giant.
The U.S. job scenario has been improving. Recently, the U.S. Labor Department announced that it had regained all the 217,000 jobs lost during the recession, making it the strongest pace of job growth since 1999. The average work hours also bounced back to 34.5 hours per week, the same time recorded pre-recession.
However, unemployment rates are still unchanged at 6.3 percent.
"The good news is that the economy has now recovered all of the near nine million jobs lost during the recession. The bad news is that, after bottoming out in early 2010, it took four years before the level of employment returned to its pre-recession peak," The Guardian cited a note by Paul Ashworth, chief US economist at Capital Economics. "But the unemployment rate is still higher than it should be."
