Georgia area workforce trends: WIA area #16 - Heart of Georgia/Altamaha, projections to 2012

Fastest Growing Occupations

Retail Salespersons Social & Human Service Assistants
Correctional Officers & Jailers Truck Drivers, Light or Delivery Services
Child Care Workers Personal & Home Care Aides
Registered Nurses Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
Police & Sheriff's Patrol Officers Receptionists & Information Clerks Nursing Aides, Orderlies, & Attendants
Food Preparation Workers Food Preparation Workers
Waiters & Waitresses Cooks, Restaurant

4.2% 4.0% 3.4% 3.1% 2.9% 2.5% 2.0% 1.9% 1.6% 1.6% 1.4% 1.3% 1.3% 1.3% 1.1%

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.
Two of the fastest growing occupations are associated with the healthcare industry.
Fourteen of these jobs do not require any formal education beyond high school.

Occupations with the Most Annual Openings

Child Care Workers Comb. Food Prep & Serving Wrkrs, Incl. Fast
Food Waiters & Waitresses
Registered Nurses
Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers
Correctional Officers & Jailers Laborers & Freight, Stock, & Material
Movers, Hand General & Operations Managers
Nursing Aides, Orderlies, & Attendants
Stock Clerks & Order Fillers
Team Assemblers
Elem. School Teachers, Exc. Special Ed.
Police & Sheriff's Patrol Officers
Food Preparation Workers Sales Reps, Whlsale & Manuf., Tech. &
Scientific Products Customer Service Representatives
Office Clerks, General
Truck Drivers, Heavy & Tractor-Trailer
Truck Drivers, Light or Delivery Services

80 70 70 60 60 50 50 40 40 40 40 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30

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.
Two of these jobs are directly related to the healthcare industry.
Nine require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less.
Although these occupations have many projected annual openings, more than half of them pay less than average wages.

Georgia Area
Workforce Trends
Projections to 2012
WIA Area #16 Heart of GA/Altamaha
This area encompasses 17 counties in the heart of the state in and around the city of Dublin. It includes the following counties: Appling, Bleckley, Candler, Dodge, Emanuel, Evans, Jeff Davis, Johnson, Laurens, Montgomery, Tattnall, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, Wayne, Wheeler and Wilcox.
Workforce Information & Analysis Division Georgia Department of Labor Michael L. Thurmond Commissioner

Total Industry Growth

Total employment in WIA Area #16 is expected to grow from more than 98,000 jobs in 2002 to almost 101,000 by the year 2012, which equates to more than 250 new jobs added each year. This area is the home of the world-famous sweet Vidalia onion. It is also the home of a V. A. Hospital and several state prison facilities. This area was the chief apparel products producer in Georgia during the last decade. As such, it was one of the hardest hit areas in the state with the transfer overseas of many apparel manufacturing jobs during the 10-year period. Besides agriculture, other key industries include education, healthcare, state and federal government employment, textiles, fabricated metal manufacturing, wood product manufacturing, and machinery manufacturing.
The top ten industries in this area with the most job growth are listed below.

State Government, exc. Educ. & Hospitals Social Assistance
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing Wood Product Manufacturing
Food Services & Drinking Places Ambulatory Health Care Services
Hospitals Nursing & Residential Care Facilities
General Merchandise Stores Administrative & Support Services

710 660 600 530 480 460 360 330

1,410 1,370

Industry Rate of Growth

The area's economy is expected to lag behind both the state's and the nation's economy over the projection period. Area job growth is expected to be 0.3 percent per year, while Georgia's job growth is expected to be 1.6 percent per year and the nation is expected to have annual job growth of 1.4 percent.
The ten fastest growing industries in this area are listed below.

Social Assistance Wood Product Manufacturing Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing State Government, exc. Educ. &
Hospitals Administrative & Support Services Ambulatory Health Care Services
Health & Personal Care Stores General Merchandise Stores Personal & Laundry Services
Credit Intermediation & Related Activities

3.1% 2.9% 2.7% 2.5% 2.1% 1.5% 1.5% 1.5% 1.4%

8.2%

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Occupations with the Most Job Growth

Retail Salespersons Child Care Workers Registered Nurses Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers Correctional Officers & Jailers
Cashiers Nursing Aides, Orderlies, & Attendants Truck Drivers, Light or Delivery Services Sales Reps, Whlsale & Manuf., Tech. & Scientific
Products Comb. Food Prep & Serving Wrkrs, Incl. Fast Food
Social & Human Service Assistants Waiters & Waitresses
General & Operations Managers Police & Sheriff's Patrol Officers
Personal & Home Care Aides Counter & Rental Clerks
Customer Service Representatives Receptionists & Information Clerks

430 320 300 290 290 230 220 210 160 150 150 140 110 100 100 100 100

1,210

These 15 occupations out of more than 700 - are projected to add more than 4,600 jobs over the next 10 years, the majority of all projected job growth in this area.
Ten occupations require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less and two require a college degree.
Thirteen of these occupations also appear in the chart of the fastest growing occupations.