Bloomberg names ABQ ‘unlikely city that will power the U.S. economy’

Mike English, Assistant Editor of Albuquerque Business First

If you're still wavering about your pursuit of that STEM degree, consider this: The average pay for all 28,590 people in STEM professions in Albuquerque is $76,960, compared to $31,060 for the rest of us.

Want to bump your pay even more? Then get a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) management job in engineering or architecture, where 1,270 Albuquerque residents are employed at a median salary of $144,770.

Those statistics are found in a new Bloomberg Business study called "The Unlikely Cities That Will Power the U.S. Economy." And Albuquerque is one of those cities — ranked 44th in the U.S., in fact, for the strength of its STEM-based economy. Click here to read the full article.