Manufacturing in America is more robust than you might think. Many metro areas across the country have growing manufacturing sectors that employ workers in good jobs and enable them to save for the future.
Recently, SmartAsset, an online financial services company, ranked the 10 best places to work in manufacturing. To get the rankings, SmartAsset examined data on 480 metro areas. The company looked at six factors: manufacturing as a percent of the workforce; job growth from 2013 to 2016; job growth from 2015 to 2016; income growth from 2013 to 2016; income growth from 2015 to 2016; and housing costs as a percent of income.