Seattle is competitive across the board.
Trying to get a minimum wage job will result in being turned away if you apply more than an hour after the job is posted; they already have at least 300 applicants. As for my field (machinist), I happened to move here around the same time Boeing had massive layoffs, so I was competing against guys who had 10–25 years experience compared to my 5.
It’s a little better now, but unemployment here is still a bit above the national average. I got lucky enough to get a low-paying job after over a year of looking and even luckier when the machine shop got slammed hard enough to need another person (they decided to yank me in and grab some shlub off the street for my old position rather than shell out for a new machinist).
A lot depends on luck these days, though if you have the right skills, you can somewhat make your own luck.