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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to more fully understand the issues impacting recruitment and retention of SLPs in urban settings. The ultimate goal of the research will be to gain a more far-reaching understanding of the urban employment setting in speech-language pathology. More specifically, it will attempt to identify the characteristics of urban employment that: (1) attract SLPs in the first place (2) promote their retention or persuade them to maintain their employment as a long-term career choice, and most importantly (3) causes them to choose another employment setting initially or once employed by a major urban school district, causes them to leave and find employment in another work setting. Method: Speech-language pathologists employed by the Cincinnati Public Schools, the Columbus Public Schools, and the Cleveland Public Schools completed a questionnaire that probed several aspects of the urban employment setting that may prove to be attractive or problematic to the entry-level speech-language professional. A portion of the questionnaire was scored on the basis of an informal content analysi