one common area, west palm beach was the biggest improver for the year-to-year moving up 93 spots from last year. that has to do with the end in housing bust in that area of the country. so these are some the metrics that we used in evaluating metros. we look at job growth, wages, technology growth, over the most recent five years and over the most recent one year. that smooth things out over the business cycle is of what anyone year determine the rankings because that can be very volatile. so, we also include your over your job growth in the most recent month which is in this case, prior to publication was august of last year. so, employment and wages are more highly rated because they are critical to community vitality. wages and salary signal the quality of the jobs being created a metropolitan area and also

there are other measures to measure the concentration of diversity and it's really a way to look at the community involvement in the so-called knowledge-based economy. this is a chart that shows employment growth relative to the peak of this recession relative to others and what you'll notice is that this recovery has been relatively mild compared to previous ones. and overall job growth in the country really determine some of the pattern of regional growth around the country. now the good news is that the mac in the second quarter of last year all of the 8.7 million jobs that were lost during the previous recession had finally been recovered. so, we are finally adding jobs in the united states overall. now let's get to san francisco to me run through some of these metrics that really are starting when you look at them. san francisco wasn't on the top list in a truly remarkable recovery. if the entrepreneurial ecosystem that

exist here in social media, mobile apps, cloud-based computing and storage, software, computer systems design, internet publishing, clean tech, biotechnology, and medical research. in short, it's the [inaudible] incentive economy that is both here. once again, it's the clustering of technology and talent that shares you the advantages that operating a dense urban environment can provide that offsets higher tax rates and cost of living. so, in terms of broad growth troubles in the past five years san francisco, the metro-area division, ranked fifth in the country. across all metros and that's just really remarkable across a conscience as i said. so it really catapulted system i had posted to austin which was second this year, was his first place finish in wage and salary growth over the past five years

and in 2013. so, san francisco had the highest overall wage growth in the country over that period of time. so it is really the quality of these jobs that is driving that i wage growth in the technology sector and it's no surprise that all these young talented skilled workers are flocking into the city. and the demand is driving up wages so unemployment in these tech related occupations is below two percent today. in the area. when you consider that san francisco has double the concentration of technology that the us does over all, strong growth, a strong base, it resulted a lot of economic activity because the employment multiplier is around five. meaning, there are four other jobs that are created outside the tech area that are dependent upon one tech job. this shows you the category of professional technical scientific services employment..

yes. employment in that area. it really when i look at the data, i was surprised i didn't believe it initially. but over the past five years 25,500 jobs have been created in this category. it accounts for 45 percent of total job growth in the metro division. that is once again an amazing accomplishment. these occupations paid over $90,000 per employee versus the us average of about $70,000 in the same categories. and, when you look more specifically within the tech sector, 160,000 per employee. so these are very high wage jobs. we all are aware of the rapidly expanding startups to mike top boxes are unpacked down to the list. there rapid clip and absorbing tremendous amounts of office space in the area. but it's not

just startups. companies like oracle are diversifying. their employment-based hiring in the city. i then programmers and developers in the city. and further scrambling to find enough space so for example salesforces hopefully going to be moving into a new office tower within the next couple of years and even bloomberg is opening r&d facility south of market being near the tech corridor door. so medical research biotechnology along with social media and apps are really fueling this group growth. along with university of california, san francisco medical school is expanding its research and clinical footprint. let me briefly mention a few others. austin the second and is the most consistent performer in our top five. it's a night dynamic generator of jobs in the technology sector. just to give you a sense of the consistency among it ranked first third and

ninth in job growth respectively from 2008 through 2003. in 2003 and year-over-year in august of this year. also it has very high wage growth. another part of the country, also in the west about polo was in the top three and really between san francisco boston and provo they were very close at the top three there. provo actually led the country in job growth over the past year rising 5.3 percent. so, another significant up, which meant. when you look at gross metro product and provo it grew by seven and half percent versus the us about 2.4 percent. so, low taxes payroll business climate there. fortunately have another barrier of economy and the top five san jose the silicon valley area and is the largest technology hub in the country. and the world for that matter. that division employed

270,000 people in the technology sector. it has the hardware component of high tech. so the single rigid capital is not only [inaudible] some firms in the valley but they're setting firms in san francisco now and it is one of the most successful ecosystems in turning research into possible companies. also has a very high level educational team so silicon valley has double the us average of people with a masters degree or above with 21 percent. so 20 percent of the workforce is oakland valley has a masters degree or above. also, representing the southeast raleigh carried also another perennial top performer. it has sought employment growth for the several years and also saw saw its job creation rate accelerate in the

past year and over the past 12 months was fourth in the category in the country. let me just briefly mention some of the small performing metros. as i said, fargo was number one, very diverse economy for small metro. it has healthcare. it has financial services. and another thing, we'll see what happens given the declining oil prices in terms of the oil boom but overall, looking at the numbers, it truly was a remarkable performance by san francisco and let me introduce the man who has been leading that effort. am not one to typically stands up and tells us what great jobs mayors are doing but i tell them what they should be doing but mayor lee is showing us what should be done and deserves a lot of the credit for this growth in technology and other creative services and improving the quality of life in the community. mayor lee.

>> [applause] >> ross, thank you for that wonderful presentation and jim, it's also pleasure to work with you and they are counsel. the milken institute. thank you for showing that san francisco continues to be the best city to live to work to play. i am very very honored to be its mayor. i get to work with quite a few great talented in our city and some of them are in the audience. that help me continue making the city a success. i want to say too that this is up in the case. i've been around long enough to know that. you know, my favorite line in this discussion, ross, that our job growth is really an unrivaled accomplishment quote unquote. we forget sometimes just not very long ago how hard it was to match

imagine this. how unprecedented this recovery is, given that when you look at the other cities that we are compared to, you know that we are very limited geographically. so we have to be pretty inventive as to how we do this. we have worked hard. there are some basic things that i'll share with you as part of the panel today as to how we may have gotten there but we were not seeking to be the best city. i think were just seeking to make sure we got out of this recession. well and that we are always going to be talking with our business partners because when am i main questions with the business community is, calmly look around the corner. help us as a city, as a region, prevent ourselves from being thrust into another recession. what are the jobs and the industries that sustain itself throughout any economic challenge that the nation might confront? now these days the world economy could impact us. so, we work hard. to earn this

title and i think that now that we've created more jobs than any time in our city's history, were not going to sit on this group were going to really try to move forward. those of us that have lived in san francisco and seen our city and our regions growth, know this first-hand. we know that businesses in our downtown, and our soma, are growing. we've seen those companies from the valley so we moved to an extent in san francisco. we have seen this as a positive thing. there is amazing success stories of not only those that have grown here but now those that have started here have become tycoons in the business community. salesforce twitter yelp and so many others. you know this amazing story also says to us that we are excited and i'm excited because it

isn't just one sector. this is the thing that i will keep over and over again. industries like healthcare, click biotech, tourism, construction, manufacturing and more but we also see technology very strongly woven into all these different industries. this is the excitement that i continue to share with our chamber of commerce, without sf technology companies with all the different sectors. is that it isn't just one, it's all about. and that gives us a tremendous opportunity because all of these sectors have helped people get back to work have created the revenues that we can invest right back into our neighborhoods into our small businesses, into infrastructure, into the people to create this city to become a continuing attractive city. because without that investment

, you're going to quickly see that the very talent that the companies have recruited here, and one of the greatest assets that we have is our count -- but that don't won't be here unless we continue thrusting forth a diverse city. a city that's exciting to them that keeps their minds focused on being successful and being integrated and being a world-class city. so, when i say that were not sitting on our success, i also saved we are building upon our success. you know, we raised the minimum wage. that's a excitingly good thing for people really feel that they can't afford to be here. we are investing in transportation. we are implementing a very serious tax reform. how could you have a tax system that was literally taxing jobs when you're saying i want those jobs in our city for everybody? we are

investing in our city's youth and families and education system. in unprecedented level. i was with the school district the other night as they swore in the school board members that were just elected and i spent the entire evening with the school district. i wanted to demonstrate how important education is to the entire city. we are building housing. you are going to hear me, this year and any other year, whether i'm elected or not, it's going to be housing housing housing for middle income for workforce housing, convertible income lovers. we are going to make sure that the resident benefit from a successful city. you know, san francisco is proving and it will continue to prove that you can have a strong economic growth city and still be a socially progressive leader for the nation. this is important i think to the conversation, to the rest of the country. i'm going to be talking about that over and

over again because we can take care of a lot of people who have struggled in the economy was bad, but it's good practice to where investments should be. the two simply are not mutually exclusive and we can and will continue to support not just economic development, but our people. our families. our youth. our homeless. are kids who didn't get the attention and now they got our full attention. we want them to succeed and all of our residents 60. so, with this story i just want to add value to that you'd were not sitting on the success just because your number one, we need to be number one in many other categories in particularly, what sort families and our youth and that's were going to continue to get with that, got to participate in the panel discussion and thank you very much. >> [applause] >> you all here to do what they

do everyday they should be resting but a huge thanks to all of you without further ado we a map that needs no introduction the father of the chief mayor ed lee. (clapping.) >> thank you. good morning everyone. >> morning. >> well, i'm glad to help mohammed and all the wonderful department heads and volunteers and labor organizations as well as community organizations to really start the year to not only clean up but we do more than clean up; right? we biff our neighborhoods. (clapping.) >> i want to say thank you to all the young kids that are out

with us today, we're going to be working with us we want to make sure our city it cleaned up for them yeah. (clapping) i also wanted to make sure that psyche i didn't right here is part of the effort we've got students performs with us he's wear the right colors because his colors also mean world series teamwork. >> (clapping.) so i want to say thank you we're n a world-class city a world series champion city and hopefully very soon our nba champion city and the superb 50 next year the arraign we're a

world-class city everybody cares cares about our city supervisor kim's is is great champion not only for the beautification of every alleyway as mohammed said one hundred and 50 thousand volunteer hours since 2000 we have some thirty thousand plant that have been 34r5e7bd throughout even though city as a result of clean city 3 million square feet of graft abatement and i know that because i got one million of them and i got it on the same signal box i know a million square feet that's a square block i want to say thank you to the community groups you're helping not only to help clean the city and getting volunteers young people as well as people that point careers and good jobs to work with you dpw

and all the associate agency rec and park and all those departments are part of our youth hiring organization we use the most basically teams of respectfully the city to recruit our youths and you'll see many of them grew up into career jobs in all our department i want to shout out to the police department who is here all the time (clapping) and i want everybody to know as you pan out we're all working together a strong collaboration among the agencies but the most more collaboration is with our community and the people that live here no matter where your from (clapping)

we keep that in everything so i want to say thank you to everybody keep collaborating and working together and make that city a world-class city thank you very much (clapping.) how about another big hand for our mayor (clapping.) okay you know about the giant sweep you heard a little bit about the golden sweep the golden warriors coming here the next person i'm going to introduce and asked her to make a commitment 3 of all the clean up event had are required that the supervisor of that district show up and provide leadership and tells you the projects they want to get done and together all of us the city departments

and volunteers we have the commitment to detective get it done please well, the president of the board of supervisors london breed (clapping.) good morning, everybody. i'll be brief i want you to spend more time working than listening to us when i was growing up in the city my exploratorium would clean up the in front of the place we the next day would be trash and she'd clean it up i said momma why do you keep cleaning up she would maybe they if at the see me they won't do it we're celebrating 15 years of consistent clean up our streets (clapping) this town was not this big 15 years ago (clapping) so when you're out there cleaning up and taking care of

which our amazing city just remember people are watching and people may want to join us next year i'm committed allocates the president of the board of supervisors to make sure we continue to come out and support in event we continue to make sure that dpw as the resources it needs to not only keep our city clean up but to keep it beautiful so thank you all so much for coming i look forward to seeing you out there taking care of our amazing city and have fun out there (clapping). >> all right. i promise you all this is short one more person you need to hear from the person in favor of the city and the public works works with very closely to address the concerns in the district we are in district 6 and the supervisor of district 6 supervisor jane kim

please welcome her she's going to say a few words (clapping) this is the 15 year anniversary from district to district we're going to acknowledge a few of the folks that are with us in san francisco so if you're not one of the four today your on the list and next week we'll be in chptd and from chinatown in the sunset and all over san francisco if you're not iron of the recipients of the award today, we'll 2r50i to keep this short supervisor jane kim. >> thank you mohammed. >> i also is the department head the department of public works is the real mayor of san francisco (laughter) which means our mayor was mayor before and how amazing is this is we have a mayor that didn't just come to clean up as a photo op

but spend his time cleaning up the alleys and streets of san francisco mayor ed lee (clapping) we did give a shout out to the san francisco police department i have to recognize cantonese captain cherniss who is here (clapping) you all know him he heads the tenderloin police station and their police officers also personally clean the streets in san francisco so thank you for doing that (clapping) 0 over 20 years ago actually in 1994 a group of young people in chinatown that noticed their alleyways were not clean so they started doing research and knows there's a difference between streets and alleys and what's the responsibility of the city yet no one was taking care of the alleys they personally went out and cleaned the alleyways and published them in local

newspapers to shame the adults the property owners and the restaurant owners and the merchant and city in taking care of the alleyways in the same way we are 10 years ago this program hired me this is the second annual community set up in san francisco while the work has expanded dpw has worked with them and you'll the neighborhood clean our streets and alleyway program south of market for example i want to thank you all for your work many of us get to go homes and schools and after-school programs there are actually people paid to clean whether it's a hall of school but that if mean we trash our schools and hallways or homes

even though people are paid to clean up it is your home and this is our city our home it's our responsibility to keep this beautiful so in the new year actually many residents of the city particularly those from asian and asian-american cultural have a tradition we do a clean sweep and beautification of our homes to kind of the start we're doing f this this year why 2015 so thank you for coming out today to beautify your home i get - you can clap our if are 0 yourselves i get to present as 234rd 4 awards to relocation four people that did this in our neighborhood in chinatown i got to know south of

market the youth organization doing the work working with our alleyways and streets this is the united players so players (clapping.) the south of market of market they're using young people to clean the parks and alleyways through the south of market every that week not just once a year (clapping). >> we would like to ask the - oh we'll do it after second you will notice that we have some newportable public toilets in the tenderloin so i want to bring our private partners up that made that happen that's the clean city coalition please come up here

(clapping) you'll see their men and women cleaning the streets on every day but they also get to monitor our public restrooms come on up here you'll see them everyday and monitoring our rooms that are assessable to everyone (clapping) would you think that steam cleaning requests by over 1/3rd saving 6 thousand plus gallons of water every month thank you (clapping.) >> next the next group we want to bring up someone that actually worked with our young people noting that live in streets that provides employment they're here volunteering on a regular basis the larkin street

program (clapping) all right. >> thank you okay. thank you and they're moving to they're new home on golden state we're excited about that and finally a partner in all our district and neighborhood we call upon them probably everyday we have ecology we have mark that is going to share a few words (clapping) in support of our community event. >> i think we have a new department here (laughter) good morning, everyone on behalf of the ecology employees i'm honored to receive this recognize i'm sure you're aware of the ecology was not the original founder we're so proud

of that sponsorship but proud to have a work side by side with the volunteers and of the departments to keep this city clean we or so blessed with beautiful buildings and open spaces but frankly litter and gash and graffiti it is becoming something that is an goobl to be able to enjoy the beauty so thank you so much for your work and all who visit here and live here enjoy the beautiful surrounding thank you. >> all right. are we ready to go to work. >> yeah. >> are we lead to go to work so, please work safely if you see something you don't shouldn't be touching don't touch it if you have doubt ask someone wi