6. Atlanta

Increase In Labor Pool, 2011-2016: 47.6 percent

Tech Jobs, 2016: 133,810

In the economic hub of the South, tech professionals saw growth of nearly 16 percent in their paychecks from 2011 to 2016, to an average annual salary of $92,380. (Average salary for a developer or programmer: $98,585.) The growth in the millennial population – 9.3 percent – was double the national average.