Georgia area workforce trends: WIA area #19 - SE Georgia, projections to 2020

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 these occupations are found in construction and extraction field.
Four have been designated Hot on a statewide basis for the
period 2010-2020.
Six require college or a postsecondary non-degree award or higher.

Home Health Aides
Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer
Cost Estimators
Paving, Surfacing, and Tamping Equipment Operators
Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators
Hairdressers, Hairstylists, and Cosmetologists
Hot Construction Managers
Loan Officers
Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance
Radiologic Technologists and Technicians*
Hot Marketing Managers
Construction Laborers
Hot Network and Computer Systems Administrators (part) Hot Managers of Construction Trades and Extraction Workers
Self-Enrichment Education Teachers

3.48% 2.92% 2.72% 2.56% 2.54% 2.51% 2.30% 2.24% 2.12% 2.11% 2.10% 2.06% 1.87% 1.85% 1.84%

* Education and Training Classification System (udpated 2012).

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.
Four occupations require training or education beyond high school.
Two have earned the Hot label on a statewide basis for this period.
Eleven of these jobs do not require any college.
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 Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer
Retail Salespersons
Hot Registered Nurses*
Waiters and Waitresses
Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand
Hot Elementary School Teachers, Except Special Education
Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses
Child Care Workers
Office Clerks, General
Teacher Assistants
Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants*
Correctional Officers and Jailers
Managers of Retail Sales Workers

80 60 60 50 40 40 40 30 30 30 30 20 20 20 20

* Education and Training Classification System (udpated 2012).

Georgia Area Workforce Trends
Projections to 2020
WIA Area #19 SE Georgia
Berrien
This area encompasses the nine counties of southeast Georgia in and around the cities of Douglas and Waycross. It includes the following counties: Atkinson, Bacon, Berrien, Brantley, Charlton, Clinch, Coffee, Pierce, and Ware.
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 #19 is expected to grow from 54,000 jobs in 2010 to more than 55,000 by the year 2020, which equates to approximately 100 new jobs added each year. This area is the home of a regional medical center, a regional retail distribution center, an aircraft parts manufacturer, and several mobile home manufacturers. Key industries include health services, educational services, agriculture production, wood products manufacturing, food manufacturing, transportation equipment manufacturing, and truck transportation.
The top ten industries in this area with the most job growth are listed below.

Truck Transportation Specialty Trade Contractors
Hospitals Food Services and DrinkingPlaces
Educational Services Ambulatory Health Care Services Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction State, Excluding Education and Hospitals Credit Intermediation and Related Activities Administrative and Support Services

530 360 350 340 300 280 170 140 120 120

This area's job growth is expected to decelerate to 0.2 percent. However, we are optimistic that manufacturing and transportation should increase as the recovery strengthens. As for now, the area's growth rate will most likely fall short of the state's (1.1%) and the nation's (1.3%) rate.
The ten fastest growing industries in this area are listed below.

Textile Product Mills Waste Management and Remediation Service
Truck Transportation Chemical Manufacturing
Nonstore Retailers Specialty Trade Contractors Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction
Accommodation Construction of Buildings

9.68% 6.53% 5.73% 4.68% 3.40% 3.30% 3.03% 2.76% 2.70% 2.65%

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These 15 occupations out of more than 800 - are projected to add almost 1,600 jobs over the next 10 years, which represents the main supply of the vast majority of jobs in the area.
Four of these occupations require a college degree.
Four of these jobs are found in construction and extraction occupations.
Three have made the list of Georgia's Hot Careers to 2020 for
their fast job growth, high wages, and plentiful job openings during the period 2010-2020.

Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer

380

Comb Food Prep and Serving Workers, Incl Fast Food
Hot Registered Nurses*

220 170

Construction Laborers

130

Home Health Aides

90

Carpenters

80

Hot Elem School Teachers, Except Special Ed

70

Correctional Officers and Jailers

60

Child Care Workers

60

Office Clerks, General

60

Hot Supvrs of Construction Trades & Extraction Workers

60

Operating Engineers & Other Const Equipment Operators

60

Licensed Practical and LicensedVoc Nurses

50

Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants*

50

Waiters and Waitresses

50

* Education and Training Classification System (udpated 2012).

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