Job hunting is never easy, and a tight job market has created some less-than-stellar opportunities for job seekers in some states, putting the onus on benefits managers to create the right benefits plans to keep the best talent within an organization.
Personal-finance website WalletHub released a ranking of states with the worst job opportunities. To determine its list, WalletHub compared the 50 states across 24 key indicators of job-market strength, opportunity and economic vitality.
Those sections were filtered into two major categories: job market (which includes metrics such as job opportunities, employment growth and job satisfaction) and economic environment (which includes metrics such as median annual income, average number of hours in a work week and earned income-tax credit).