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.
Five of the fastest growing occupations are in healthcare, and three are in business and financial operations.
Five of the fifteen occupations have earned the Hot label on a
statewide basis for this period.
Half of the occupations on the list require training or education beyond high school.

Hot Meeting and Convention Planners Hot Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists
Occupational Therapists Physical Therapist Assistants
Advertising Sales Agents Home Health Aides
Cement Masons and Concrete Finishers Personal and Home Care Aides
Hot Physical Therapists
Medical Secretaries Physical Therapist Aides
Cost Estimators Child Care Workers
Hot Respiratory Therapists Hot Graphic Designers

4.04% 3.95% 3.42% 3.37% 3.28% 3.24% 3.15% 3.09% 3.05% 2.92% 2.78% 2.71% 2.60% 2.58% 2.45%

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.
Five out of the fifteen jobs are in office and support or retail sales.
Only two occupations require technical training or a college degree.
Although these occupations have many projected annual openings, more than half of them pay less than average wages.

Cashiers Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food
Waiters and Waitresses Retail Salespersons
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
Hot Registered Nurses*
Amusement and Recreation Attendants Child Care Workers
Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses Office Clerks, General
Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Counter Attendants, Cafeteria, Food Concession, and Coffee Shop
Managers of Retail Sales Workers
Hot Managers of Office and Administrative Support Workers
Customer Service Representatives

140 130 120 110 100 80 60 60 50 50 50 40 40 40 40

* Education and Training Classification System (udpated 2012).

Georgia Area Workforce Trends
Projections to 2020
WIA Area #18 South GA
This area encompasses the nine 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

Industry Rate of Growth

Occupations with the Most Job Growth

Total employment in WIA Area #18 is expected to increase from 92,000 jobs in 2010 to almost 100,000 by the year 2020, which equates to more than 800 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.

Food Services and DrinkingPlaces Ambulatory Health Care Services Hospitals Educational Services
Administrative and Support Services Social Assistance
Amusement, Gambling, and Rec Industries Specialty Trade Contractors Publishing Industries
Pro. , Scientific, and Technical Services

1,250 1,140 900 770 690 530 520 410 310 270

Employment projections for South Georgia's economy managed to remain level at 0.7 percent, which is difficult to maintain, with the recent down turn in the economy. The area should be able to benefit from an economic recovery and add additional jobs throughout the decade. The state's (1.1%) and the nation's (1.3%) growth rate remains above the 1% threshold.
The ten fastest growing industries in this area are listed below.

Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries
Publishing Industries Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related
Industries Social Assistance
Construction of Buildings Ambulatory Health Care Services Administrative and Support Services
Specialty Trade Contractors Personal and Laundry Services

5.35% 4.29% 4.25% 3.42% 3.30% 2.61% 2.40% 2.01% 1.99% 1.90%

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These 15 occupations out of more than 800 - are projected to add more than 3,200 jobs over the next 10 years, 48% of the total projected job growth in this area.
Three occupations require a degree or training beyond high school.
Four of the occupations on the list are in health services.
Only one occupation made the list of Georgia's Hot Careers to
2020 as a result of their fast job growth, high wages, and plentiful job openings during the period 2010-2020.

Comb Food Prep and Serving Workers, Incl Fast Food
Hot Registered Nurses*
Child Care Workers Waiters and Waitresses
Office Clerks, General Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Mat Movers, Hand Amusement and RecreationAttendants Licensed Practical and LicensedVoc Nurses
Medical Secretaries Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants*
Receptionists and Information Clerks Home Health Aides
Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners Construction Laborers

270 260 190 180 180 160 150 150 140 140 130 130 130

* Education and Training Classification System (udpated 2012).

550 450

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