In a recent article and ranking in Bloomberg Business Gadsden was listed in the top 30 small cities for tech jobs. "
Using occupational data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bloomberg identified 30 smaller metro areas where both salaries and headcounts in the field of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics increased at least twice as fast compared with the entire nation in 2018.
The median pay for STEM jobs increased 2.1% in 2018 to $84,880 from a year earlier, while total employment in the sector swelled to 9.09 million, up 2.3% from 2017."
With Median STEM Pay of $63,570 and more than 450 STEM jobs, Gadsden is a 26th in the Nation according to this ranking from Bloomberg.