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Employment in science, technology, engineering and math in Honolulu is ranked 95th among the top 100 metropolitan statistical areas in a new study.
Personal finance site WalletHub analyzed 16 factors including percentage of all workers in STEM-related positions; employment growth in the field; quality of engineering schools; and housing affordability.
Honolulu ranked dead last in the affordability of housing as well as cost-of-living-adjusted annual median wages for STEM workers, and below 50th in all other measures except STEM employment growth, a category in which it placed 39th.
In per-capita job openings for STEM graduates, Honolulu ranked 54th. The market was 56th for annual median wage growth for workers in the field. Honolulu is 58th for the percentage of all workers in STEM-related positions; 61st in the quality of engineering universities; 68th in mathematics performance by fourth- and eighth-graders; and 79th in the number of projected STEM jobs needed in the year 2020.
The STEM fields are expected to grow 1.7 times faster than other professions, according to the WalletHub study.
