8. Oklahoma City

Increase In Labor Pool, 2011-2016: 46.6 percent

Tech Jobs, 2016: 18,970

Tech salaries grew 12.6 percent, on average, in the capital of Oklahoma, where business costs are only 86 percent of the national average, based on data CBRE gathered from Moody's Analytics. But despite the growth in tech jobs, the millennial population dipped 1.2 percent from 2010 to 2015.