May 1st 2011 through April 30th 2012 Honolulu added a little over 3600 jobs, which puts Honolulu at number 55 on a nationwide scale, in terms of number of jobs added over those 12 months. According to Wikipedia, Honolulu is the 55th largest city in the US, which shows job growth in Honolulu over the past 12 months were consistent with its population ranking. Hawaii Job Engine believes job growth in Hawaii, not just Honolulu, will over the next coming years outperform relative to its population, when compared to mainland cities and states and also prove more and more resistant to potential economic instability from the US mainland. The driving force, as we see it, is the expected continued growth in tourism, retirees settling in Hawaii and overall demand from people across the world to live in a place like Hawaii. The trend has over the past 10 years been for people moving towards cities, and as major cities get more and more crowded we expect more people looking for a way to combine a city lifestyle with a beach culture and Hawaii offers this unique combination. 
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