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Springfield ranks No. 47 for job growth

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Springfield ranked No. 47 this year, up 30 spots from 2005, on Milken Institute’s Best Performing Cities index, released last month.

The index measures job creation and retention, economic performance and high-tech output.

Springfield earned its best score, No. 14, for its five-year concentration of high-tech output. Its five-year job growth earned a No. 40 ranking, and its five-year wages and salaries growth received a No. 44 ranking.

Other Missouri cities to make the index were Kansas City, at No. 116, and St. Louis, at No. 125. The No. 1 metropolitan area on the index was Ocala, Fla.

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