Which American cities have the most writers? On the way to returning to tackling the question of how many writers there are in the DMV, let's first look at the same government data (the Occupational Employment Statistics) for some other cities (the cited tables, below, can be found about half way down the Bureau's page): 27-3043 Writers and Authors: Rank Metro area -- Employment (Employment per thousand jobs) 1 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA -- 7,490 (0.79) 2 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA -- 4,680 (0.76) 3 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria... -- 2,230 (0.71) 4 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI -- 1,770 (0.38) 5 Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH -- 1,320 (0.48) 27-3022 Reporters and Correspondents: Rank Metro area -- Employment (Employment per thousand jobs) 1 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA -- 4,400 (0.46) 2 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC... -- 2,120 (0.68) 3 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA -- 1,460 (0.24) 4 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI -- 850 (0.18) 5 San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA -- 840 (0.35) 27-3042 Technical Writers: Rank Metro area -- Employment (Employment per thousand jobs) 1 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC... -- 3,590 (1.15) 2 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA -- 3,230 (0.34) 3 Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH -- 2,200 (0.80) 4 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX -- 1,850 (0.52) 5 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA -- 1,630 (0.27) It will surprise no one that, according to these data at any rate, the most professionally writery American cities are New York, Los Angeles, and Washington. (These OES data count only salaried professionals; they exclude the self-employed and the moonlighter.) The capital is a relatively good place to work as a salaried technical or professional writer. How a good a place is to be a struggling or not struggling novelist or a short-story writer or poet or a writer of commercial nonfiction? Does where you work on such things even matter, and if so, why? And supposing that Washington's a bad place to work on them, as some people say, why is that? To be continued...
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