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City ranked as nation’s worst in wage changes
Matthew Daneman – Staff writer
Business – July 6, 2009 - 1:38pm

Last place. That’s where Rochester falls in a new ranking of wage changes between the last three months of 2008 and the first three months of 2009.

Done by the Brookings Institution, the ranking looked at the 100 largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Rochester ranked 100th in the results, with New York in general performing poorly: Syracuse was 99th, and Albany-Schenectady was 98th.

The survey looked at the percent change in average wages for those metro areas. For those 100 overall, the average change in wages was 0.4 percent.

The most growth was in the Phoenix area, followed by Tulsa.