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Need a side job? The 10 best cities for 'gig economy' workers

The gig economy has become typified by piecemeal jobs found on platforms like Uber and Etsy, but that's just part of a larger sea change in the American labor force: 54 million workers considered themselves freelancers last year. Here are the 10 US cities with the most opportunities for them, according to 

9. Las Vegas

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Trees cast shadows on a building as a man walks along the street in Las Vegas (Feb. 17, 2016).

Las Vegas comes in at number nine on the ranking, and its growth in the gig sector is reflective of an improving picture for the state overall. Nevada鈥檚 economy has been showing modest increases since 2014, according to the UNLV Center for Business and Economic Research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In the last five months of 2015, Nevada as a whole added an average of approximately 1,266 jobs per month, and its economy continues to grow back to its pre-recession size, albeit slowly.

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