Georgia area occupational trends: WIA area #18 - South GA, projections to 2008

Occupations with Most Annual Openings

Cashiers Salespersons, Retail Waiters & Waitresses General Mgrs & Top Execs Comb Food Prep/Serv Wkrs General Office Clerks Food Preparation Workers
Registered Nurses Teachers, Elementary Teachers, Secondary School Marketing/Sales Supervisors Truck Drivers, Heavy Teacher Aides, Paraprof Stock Clerks, Sales Floor Nursing Aides & Orderlies
Janitors & Cleaners Hand Packers & Packagers

150 130 110 100 80 70 60 60 60 60 50 50 50 50 50

270 220

" 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, a key industry in this area.
" Twelve 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 pays less than average wages.

Occupations with Largest Declines

-500

Sew ing Mach Oprs, Garment

-280

Textile Mach Oprs/Tndrs

-80

Production Inspectors, Graders

-60

Textile Mach Setrs/Oprs

-40 Bank Tellers

-40 Typists, Incl Word Processing

-30 Farm Wkrs, Ex Agri Serv

-30 Pressing Machine Ops, Textiles

-20 Mail Machine Operators

-20 Computer Operators, Exc Periphrl

-20 Sw itchboard Operators

-20 Custom Tailors & Sew ers

-20 Machine Tool Cutting Ops, M/P

-20 Machine Forming Ops, M/P

-20 Textile Draw -Out Mach Oprs

-20 Textile Blch/Dye Mach Oprs/Tndrs

-20 Sew ing Mach Oprs, Non-Garment

" The occupations in this list are declining due to many factors, including technological advances, office automation and foreign competition.
" Seven of these jobs are found mainly in textiles and apparel manufacturing and one is in telephone communications.
" Three are in clerical jobs with increasingly automated duties.
" One is in information technology and is the result of switching from mainframe computers to personal computers.

Georgia Area
Occupational Trends

Projections to 2008

WIA Area #18 South GA

Turner Tift

B en H ill Irw in

B errien

Cook

L a n ie r

B rooks

Lowndes E chols

This area encompasses the ten counties of central South Georgia near the Florida border in and around the cities of Tifton and Valdosta. It includes the following counties: Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks, Cook, Echols, Irwin, Lanier, Lowndes, Tift, and Turner.
Workforce Information & Analysis Division Georgia Department of Labor Michael L. Thurmond Commissioner

Total employment in WIA Area #18 is expected to reach nearly 124,000 jobs by the year 2008, with more than 1,900 new jobs added each year. While the area's economy is currently not growing as fast as Georgia's overall, it is growing faster than the nation's economy. Area job growth is expected to be 1.9 percent per year, while Georgia's job growth is expected to be 2.4 percent per year and the nation is expected to have annual job growth of 1.4 percent.
Area Highlights
" This area is the home of a regional medical center and a regional university.
" Thanks to its agricultural experiment station at Tifton, it is also home to one of the largest concentrations of Ph.D.'s per capita in the United States.
" Key industries include health services, educational services, agricultural production, lumber and wood products, and apparel and other textile products.
" This area experienced a 10.1 percent population growth rate over the period from 1988 to 1998 as compared to a statewide rate of 20.9 percent over the same period.
" Total personal income grew by 80.5 percent over the 10-year period while Georgia total personal income grew by 96.8 percent.

.astest Growing Occupations

Teacher Aides, Paraprof Waiters & Waitresses Cashiers
Comb Food Prep/Serv Wkrs Salespersons, Retail
Teachers, Secondary School Nursing Aides & Orderlies
Marketing/Sales Supervisors Registered Nurses
Food Preparation Workers General Office Clerks
General Mgrs & Top Execs Truck Drivers, Heavy Teachers, Elementary
Hand Packers & Packagers

4.4% 4.0% 3.7% 3.5% 3.4% 3.2% 3.1% 2.8% 2.8% 2.7% 2.5% 2.3% 2.1% 2.1% 2.1%

" 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.
" Three are found mainly in the K-12 educational services industry.
" Five of these jobs are found mainly in the retail trade industry.

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Occupations with Largest Job Growth

Cashiers Salespersons, Retail General Mgrs & Top Execs Waiters & Waitresses General Office Clerks Comb Food Prep/Serv Wkrs
Registered Nurses Teacher Aides, Paraprof Marketing/Sales Supervisors
Truck Drivers, Heavy Teachers, Secondary School
Nursing Aides & Orderlies Teachers, Elementary Cooks, Fast Food
Stock Clerks, Sales Floor Food Preparation Workers

710 610 490 420 410 390 380 330 320 320 290 270 260 260

1,230 1,100

" These 16 occupations out of more than 700 - are projected to add about 7,800 jobs over the next 10 years, about 40 percent of all projected job growth in this area.
" Eleven occupations require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less and three require a bachelor's degree.
" Eleven of these occupations do not require any formal education beyond high school.
For copies of the Georgia Career Planner, Georgia Occupational Trends in Brief
or this publication, call 404/656-3177 or contact your local
Department of Labor office.