Fastest Growing Occupations
These fast-growing occupations will have better employment prospects than occupations with slow or declining employment. Also, conditions will be more favorable for mobility and advancement.
Six of the fastest growing occupations are in healthcare or business and financial operations.
Four have earned the Hot label for this period on a statewide
basis.

Hot Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
Home Health Aides
Phy sical Therapist Assistants
Personal and Home Care Aides
Mechanical Drafters
Hot Coaches and Scouts
Loan Officers
Hot Management Analysts
Educational, Vocational, and School Counselors
Child Care Workers
Social and Human Serv ice Assistants Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast
Food Heating, Air Conditioning, and Refrigeration Mechanics and
Installers
Hot Special Education Teachers, Preschool, Kindergarten, and Elementary School* Roofers

3.63% 3.34% 2.54% 2.43% 2.26% 2.19% 2.05% 1.58% 1.57% 1.52% 1.29% 1.25% 1.24% 1.19% 1.18%

* Education and Training Classification System (udpated 2012).

Occupations with the Most Annual Openings
Most of the annual openings in this list will result from the need to replace workers who change jobs rather than from new job creation.
Six of these jobs are directly related to the healthcare or education.
Three occupations have been designated Hot for the period on a
statewide basis.
Six require advanced training beyond high school or a college degree.
Although these occupations have many projected annual openings, more than half of them pay less than average wages.

Cashiers

50

Combined Food Prep and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food

30

Retail Salespersons

30

Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse

30

Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants*

20

Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer

20

Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand

20

General and Operations Managers

10

Hot Elementary School Teachers, Ex cept Special Education

10

Hot Middle School Teachers, Ex cept Special and Voc Ed

10

Teacher Assistants

10

Hot Registered Nurses*

10

Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses

10

Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers

10

Managers of Food Preparation and Serving Workers

10

* Education and Training Classification System (udpated 2012).

Georgia Area Workforce Trends
Projections to 2020
WIA Area #15 Middle Flint
This area is made up of eight counties in the middle Flint River basin in and around the city of Americus. It includes the following counties: Crisp, Dooly, Macon, Marion, Schley, Sumter, Taylor and Webster.
Workforce Statistics & Economic Research Mark Butler, Commissioner

Total Industry Growth

Industry Rate of Growth

Occupations with the Most Job Growth

Total employment in WIA Area #15 is expected to decline to 33,000, over the next decade. This area is the home of the 39th president of the United States. It also is the home of a regional medical center, and a state university. Substantial employment can be found in health services, education services, agriculture, state government employment, food processing, and wood products manufacturing.

The top ten industries in this area with the most job growth are listed below.

Educational Serv ices

170

Food Serv ices and DrinkingPlaces

170

Nursing and Residential Care Facilities

160

Administrativ e and Support Services

140

Specialty Trade Contractors

120

Social Assistance

120

Gasoline Stations

70

Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing

60

Credit Intermediation and Related Activ ities

60

Ambulatory Health Care Services

50

Employment projections for the Middle Flint area show a slight decrease in employment. This area continues to experience industry shifts (manufacturing: machinery, furniture and related products), as new industries start to develop.
The ten fastest growing industries in this area are listed below.

Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing Social Assistance
Administrativ e and Support Services Specialty Trade Contractors
Heav y and Civil Engineering Construction Gasoline Stations
Nursing and Residential Care Facilities Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing Credit Intermediation and Related Activ ities
Food Serv ices and DrinkingPlaces

2.89% 2.34% 2.08% 2.03% 1.52% 1.48% 1.23% 1.16% 1.15% 0.88%

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These 10 occupations out of more than 800 - are projected to add 500 jobs over the next decade. Residential related manufacturing in the area should pick up as the housing sector recovers.
Seven of these occupations require a postsecondary award or college degree.
Most of these positions (8) are in education or food preparation and serving related occupations.
Three occupations made the Georgia's Hot Careers to 2020 for
their fast job growth, high wages, and plentiful job openings during this period.

Comb Food Prep and Serving Workers, Incl Fast Food

100

Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants*
Hot Elem School Teachers, Except Special Ed

50 40

Home Health Aides

40

Child Care Workers

40

Teacher Assistants

30

Educational, Vocational, and School Counselors

20

Social and Human Serv ice Assistants

20

Hot Middle School Teachers, Except Special and Voc Ed

20

Special Ed Teachers, Presch, Kindgtn, and Elem School*

20

Supv rs of Food Prep and ServingWorkers

20

Cooks, Restaurant

20

Waiters and Waitresses

20

Construction Managers 10

Hot Management Analysts

10

* Education and Training Classification System (udpated 2012).

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