Greater Hartford is the 19th most desirable area in the country for college graduates who studied science, technology, engineering or math, according to an analysis by the website Nerd Wallet.
Of all the jobs in the Hartford-West-Hartford-East-Hartford metropolitan area — which covers Hartford, Tolland and Middlesex counties — 6.6 percent were in STEM fields.
That fact alone accounted for 50 percent of the total score Nerd Wallet assigned to the metro area.
It also accounted for the area’s $81,932 median annual wage for STEM jobs and its median gross apartment rent of $948.
The analysis used U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data from May 2013 and rent data from the 2012 U.S. Census.
Nerd Wallet analyzed the largest 75 metro areas in the country. The highest-scoring area was San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, Calif., which a median wage of $111,745.95.
