{"id":275174,"date":"2026-05-18T14:24:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275174\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T14:24:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T14:24:18","slug":"florida-cities-rank-in-best-and-worst-places-to-start-a-career-in-2026-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/275174\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida cities rank in best and worst places to start a career in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:USA TODAY;\" href=\"https:\/\/uw-media.usatoday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"USA TODAY\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"174\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-07\/506fdd20-ee43-11eb-8f33-8a4102cf7edb.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Olivia Franklin, Treasure Coast Newspapers<\/p>\n<p>Updated Mon, May 18, 2026 at 12:08 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"787\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_usatoday_us_articles_590\/eb22763ded242ffc27cccb4c1984162d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Florida cities rank in best and worst places to start a career in 2026<\/p>\n<p>Port St. Lucie was named one of the worst places to start a career in 2026, according to a WalletHub study.<\/p>\n<p>The free personal finance website compared 182 cities in the United States to find the <a data-ylk=\"slk:best and worst places to start a career in 2026;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/wallethub.com\/edu\/best-worst-cities-to-start-a-career\/3626\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">best and worst places to start a career in 2026<\/a>. Port St. Lucie was not ranked the worst city on the list, but it was ranked the lowest out of every Florida city on the list.<\/p>\n<p>The website scored cities based on these criteria:<\/p>\n<p>Professional opportunities, such as the availability of entry-level jobs or monthly average starting salary<\/p>\n<p>Quality of life, such as housing affordability or the median annual income<\/p>\n<p>Why is Port St. Lucie one of the worst Florida cities to start a career in?<\/p>\n<p>The rankings range from 1 to 182, with 1 being the best.<\/p>\n<p>Professional opportunities rank: 168<\/p>\n<p>Quality of life rank: 178<\/p>\n<p>% of population aged 25-34: 182<\/p>\n<p>Best places to start a career in 2026<\/p>\n<p>6. Charleston, South Carolina<\/p>\n<p>7. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania<\/p>\n<p>10. Columbia, South Carolina<\/p>\n<p>Worst places to start a career in 2026<\/p>\n<p>174. Jackson, Mississippi<\/p>\n<p>175. Shreveport, Louisiana<\/p>\n<p>178. Chula Vista, California<\/p>\n<p>179. Port St. Lucie, Florida<\/p>\n<p>181. Bridgeport, Connecticut<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Olivia Franklin;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/staff\/74965934007\/olivia-franklin\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Olivia Franklin<\/a> is TCPalm\u2019s trending reporter. You can contact her at olivia.franklin@tcpalm.com, 317-627-8048 or follow her on X <a data-ylk=\"slk:@Livvvvv_5;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Livvvvv_5\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">@Livvvvv_5<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: <a data-ylk=\"slk:Port St. Lucie, Florida among worst places to start a career in 2026;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/story\/news\/local\/florida\/2026\/05\/16\/port-st-lucie-county-florida-among-worst-places-to-start-a-career-miami-orlando-tampa-treasure-coast\/90046549007\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Port St. Lucie, Florida among worst places to start a career in 2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivia Franklin, Treasure Coast Newspapers Updated Mon, May 18, 2026 at 12:08 PM UTC Florida cities rank in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[18025,28,21695,171,173,172,116906],"class_list":["post-275174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-career","tag-florida","tag-florida-city","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-worst-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}