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 associated with the healthcare industry.

Six occupations require no formal education beyond high school.
Three occupations have earned the Hot label for this period on a
statewide basis.

Pharmacy Technicians Social and Human Service Assistants
Home Health Aides Preschool Teachers, Exc Spec Ed Cabinetmakers and Bench Carpenters
Hot Network Systems & Data Comm Analysts
M edical Assistants Child Care Workers
Hot Spec Ed Teachers, Presch, Kindgtn, & Elem School
Self-EnrichmentEducation Teachers Pharmacists
Kindergarten Teachers, Exc Spec Ed Suprvs ofTrans & Material-Moving Machine & Vehicle Ops
Spec Ed Teachers, Middle School
Hot Registered Nurses

3.67% 3.56% 3.44% 3.43% 3.33% 3.29% 3.03% 2.98% 2.78% 2.76% 2.67% 2.65% 2.57% 2.57% 2.50%

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.
Nine of these jobs require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less.
Three have been designated Hot on a statewide basis for this
projections period.
Although these occupations have many projected annual openings, more than half of them pay less than average wages.

Retail Salespersons Cashiers
Comb Food Prep & Serving Workers, Incl Fast Food Waiters and Waitresses
Customer Service Representatives
Hot Elem School Teachers, Exc Spec Ed Hot Registered Nurses
Child Care Workers Laborers & Freight, Stock, & Material Movers, Hand
Hot Secondary School Teachers, Exc Spec & Voc Ed
Supvrs of Retail Sales Workers Office Clerks, General
Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer General and Operations Managers Teacher Assistants

260 230 190 170 150 110 110 110 100 90 90 80 80 70 70

Georgia Area Workforce Trends
Projections to 2018
WIA Area #8 West Central GA
This area is made up of 10 counties in west central Georgia in and around the cities of Carrollton, LaGrange and Newnan. It includes the following counties: Butts, Carroll, Coweta, Heard, Lamar, Meriwether, Pike, Spalding, Troup and Upson.
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 #8 is expected to grow from slightly more than 168,000 jobs in 2008 to almost 184,000 by the year 2018, which equates to more than 1,500 new jobs added each year. Key industries include textiles, apparel manufacturing, plastics and rubber products manufacturing, primary metal manufacturing, and transportation equipment manufacturing. The area also has substantial employment in health services and higher education.
The top ten industries in this area with the most job growth are listed below.

Educational Services

3,970

Food Services and Drinking Places

2,150

Social Assistance

1,700

General Merchandise Stores

1,310

Ambulatory Health Care Services

1,310

Hospitals
Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Org
Miscellaneous Manufacturing

1,280 760 510

Truck Transportation 480

Administrative and Support Services 450

West Central Georgia's economy is projected to sustain a 0.9% growth rate for the area. Momentum from the transportation equipment industry should help move the area's employment growth closer to the state's (1.2%) and the nation's (1.0%) growth rate.
The ten fastest growing industries in this area are listed below.

Miscellaneous Manufacturing Waste Management and Remediation
Service Social Assistance
Truck Transportation Furniture and Related Product
Manufacturing Ambulatory Health Care Services
General Merchandise Stores
Accommodation Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional,
and Similar Org Educational Services

11.04% 7.26% 4.58% 3.70% 3.53% 2.32% 2.12% 2.06% 2.01% 1.99%

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These 15 occupations out of more than 700 - are projected to add 7,300 jobs over the next 10 years, almost 50 percent of all projected job growth in this area.
Seven occupations require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less.
Two are found in health services, a key industry in this area.
Four occupations made the list of Georgia's Hot Careers to 2018
for its' fast job growth, high wages, and plentiful job openings over the projections period.

Comb Food Prep & Serving Workers, Incl Fast Food Retail Salespersons
Hot Registered Nurses
Child Care Workers
Hot Elementary School Teachers, Exc Spec Ed
Customer Service Representatives Teacher Assistants
Preschool Teachers, Exc Spec Ed Truck Drivers, Heavy and Tractor-Trailer
Waiters and Waitresses
Hot Secondary School Teachers, Exc Spec & Voc Ed
Nursing Aides, Orderlies, and Attendants Supvrs of Retail Sales Workers Office Clerks, General
Hot Middle School Teachers, Exc Spec & Voc Ed

1,070 740 700 640 630 600 430 400 390 380 310 260 260 260 250

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