Georgia area workforce trends: WIA area #18 - South GA, projections to 2014

Fastest Growing Occupations

Preschool Teachers, Exc Special Ed Medical Assistants Home Health Aides
Hairdressers, Hairstylists, & Cosmetologists Amusement & Recreation Attendants Personal & Home Care Aides
Fitness Trainers & Aerobics Instructors Dental Assistants
Hot Dental Hygienists
Child Care Workers
Hot Instructional Coordinators Hot Industrial Engineers
Laundry & Dry-Cleaning Workers
Hot Vocational Education Teachers, Postsec Hot Registered Nurses

4.1% 4.0% 4.0% 3.9% 3.5% 3.4% 3.3% 3.2% 3.2% 2.8% 2.8% 2.6% 2.6% 2.6% 2.5%

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.
Seven of the fastest growing occupations are associated with the healthcare industry.
Five of these jobs have earned the "HOT" label on a statewide basis for this period.
Seven of these jobs do not require any formal education beyond high school.

Occupations with the Most Annual Openings

Retail Salespersons
Cashiers
Waiters & Waitresses Combined Food Prep & Serving Workers, Incl Fast
Food
Hot Registered Nurses
Laborers & Freight, Stock, & Material Movers, Hand
Child Care Workers
Hot Elem School Teachers, Exc Special Education
Food Preparation Workers
Teacher Assistants
Truck Drivers, Heavy & Tractor-Trailer Team Assemblers
Hot General & Operations Managers
Farmw orkers & Laborers, Crop, Nursery, & Greenhouse Stock Clerks & Order Fillers

90 90 70 60 50 50 50 50 50 50 50

190 150 140 130

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.
On a statewide basis, three have earned the "HOT" label for this period.
Ten 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 2014
WIA Area #18 South GA
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, Brooks, Cook, Echols, Irwin, Lanier, Lowndes, Tift, and Turner.
Workforce Information & Analysis Division
Georgia Department of Labor Michael L. Thurmond Commissioner

Total Industry Growth
Total employment in WIA Area #18 is expected to grow from almost 100,000 jobs in 2004 to more than 111,000 by the year 2014, which equates to more than 1,100 new jobs added each year. 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, textiles, and transportation equipment manufacturing, paper manufacturing, and plastic products manufacturing.
The top ten industries in this area with the most job growth are listed below.

Food Services & Drinking Places
Educational Services
Ambulatory Health Care Services
General Merchandise Stores
Hospitals
Social Assistance Plastics & Rubber Products
Manuf ac turing Administrative & Support Services
Warehousing & Storage Amusement, Gambling, & Recreation
Industries

2,060 1,920 1,310 1,180 790 690 630 620 520 490

Industry Rate of Growth
While the area's economy is currently not growing as fast as Georgia's overall, it is growing at nearly the same rate as the nation's economy. Area job growth is expected to be 1.1 percent per year, while Georgia's job growth is expected to be 1.7 percent per year and the nation's employment is expected to grow at 1.2 percent annually.
The ten fastest growing industries in this area are listed below.

Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, & Related
Miscellaneous Manufacturing
Social Assistance Amusement, Gambling, & Recreation
Industries Personal & Laundry Services
General Merchandise Stores Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manuf ac turing Plastics & Rubber Products Manuf ac turing Warehousing & Storage
Ambulatory Health Care Services

10.2% 7.2% 4.7% 4.7% 4.3% 3.5% 3.5% 3.2% 3.1% 3.1%

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Occupations with the Most Job Growth

Retail Salespersons
Hot Registered Nurses
Combined Food Prep & Serv Workers, Inc Fast Food Waiters & Waitresses Child Care Workers
Hot Elem School Teachers, Exc Special Education
Teacher Assistants Truck Drivers, Heavy & Tractor-Trailer
Customer Service Representatives
Hot General & Operations Managers
Laborers & Freight, Stock, & Material Movers, Hand Food Preparation Workers
Nursing Aides, Orderlies, & Attendants Janitors & Cleaners, Exc Maids & Housekeeping
Cleaners Team Assemblers

640 510 490 460 370 260 240 240 230 220 220 200 190 190 190

These 15 occupations out of more than 700 - are projected to add more than 4,500 jobs over the next 10 years, more than 40 percent of all projected job growth in this area.
Eight occupations require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less and three require a college degree.
Two are in health services, a key industry in this area.
Three have made the list of Georgia's "HOT" Careers to 2014 as a result of their fast job growth, high wages, and plentiful job openings during the period 2004-2014.