Published on
Jun 19, 2022

By Thomas Gnau - Staff Writer

Your innovative people are getting noticed again, Dayton.

Dayton ranked 5th out of 94 midsize metropolitan areas for its number and concentration of workers in jobs requiring innovation, according to a new ranking from finance web site SmartestDollar.com.

The site’s ranking for midsize metropolitan areas gives Dayton a composite index of 60.37, weighing principally the city’s share of workers with the most innovative jobs, total workers in the most innovative jobs (in Dayton’s case, 12,990), average annual wage for all workers ($54,960, also in Dayton’s case) as well as the average annual wage for workers in the most innovative jobs ($83,754).