Georgia area workforce trends: WIA area #18 - South GA, projections to 2018

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.

Eleven of the fifteen fastest growing occupations are in the healthcare industry.
Five of the fifteen occupations have earned the Hot label on a
statewide basis for this period.

One-third of these jobs require no more than 1 year of on-the job-training.

Medical Assistants
Pharmacy Technicians
Physical TherapistAssistants
Preschool Teachers, Exc Spec Ed
Hot Physical Therapists
Child Care Workers
Hot Dental Hygienists Hot Respiratory Therapists Hot Physician Assistants
Dental Assistants
Occupational Therapists
Substance Abuse & Behavioral Disorder Counselors
Hot Registered Nurses
Self-Enrichment Education Teachers
Physical TherapistAides

3.80% 3.68% 3.52% 3.36% 3.35% 3.31% 3.27% 3.26% 3.25% 3.21% 3.15% 3.10% 3.07% 3.06% 3.05%

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.
On a statewide basis, two have earned the Hot label for this
period.
Six out of the fifteen jobs are in office and support, or sales and related occupations.
Eight occupations 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.

Retail Salespersons Cashiers
Hot Registered Nurses
Laborers & Freight, Stock, & Material Movers, Hand Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Child Care Workers Customer Service Representatives Supvrs of Retail Sales Workers Office Clerks, General General and Operations Managers
Hot Elem School Teachers, Exc Spec Ed
Teacher Assistants Licensed Practical & Licensed Voc Nurses Counter Attendants, Cafeteria, Food Concession, & Coffee Shop Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

90 90 80 70 60 50 50 40 40 40 40 40 40

150 140

Georgia Area Workforce Trends
Projections to 2018
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 Statistics & Economic Research Mark Butler, Commissioner

Total Industry Growth
Total employment in WIA Area #18 is expected to grow from 100,000 jobs in 2008 to more than 108,000 by the year 2018, which equates to more than 700 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, 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.

Educational Services Hospitals
Food Services and Drinking Places Ambulatory Health Care Services Social Assistance General Merchandise Stores
Administrative and Support Services Truck Transportation
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Org Warehousing and Storage

770 560 490 410 410 260

1,990 1,460 1,430 1,300

Industry Rate of Growth
Employment projections for South Georgia's economy moved slightly lower to 0.7 percent, but remains amongst the state's average. The area has maintained steady employment growth throughout the downturn, but falls short of the state's (1.2%) and the nation's (1.0%) growth rate.
The ten fastest growing industries in this area are listed below.

Social Assistance Nonmetallic Mineral Product... Ambulatory Health Care Services
Hospitals Truck Transportation
Real Estate Warehousing and Storage Religious, Grantmaking, Civic,... Construction of Buildings
Educational Services

4.49% 3.63% 2.85% 2.47% 2.19% 2.04% 1.94% 1.90% 1.85% 1.75%

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Occupations with the Most Job Growth
These 15 occupations out of more than 700 - are projected to add more than 3,500 jobs over the next 10 years, almost half of all projected job growth in this area.
Six occupations require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less, and four require a college degree.
Health services have four occupations on the list.
Four occupations have made the list of Georgia's Hot Careers to
2018 as a result of their fast job growth, high wages, and plentiful job openings during the period 2008-2018.

Hot Registered Nurses
Child Care Workers Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer
Retail Salespersons Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants
Customer Service Representatives
Hot Elementary School Teachers, Exc Spec Ed
Office Clerks, General Teacher Assistants Medical Assistants
Hot Middle School Teachers, Exc Spec & Voc Ed
Licensed Practical and Licensed Voc Nurses Receptionists and Information Clerks
Hot Secondary School Teachers, Exc Spec & Voc Ed
Supvrs of Food Prep & Serving Workers

630 410 380 330 260 200 190 180 170 160 140 140 140 130 130

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