Fastest Growing Occupations

Structural Metal Fabricators & Fitters
Hot Netw ork Systems & Data Comm Analysts
Home Health Aides Paving, Surfacing, & Tamping Equipment
Operators Pipelayers
Multiple Machine Tool Setters, Operators, & Tenders
Hot Cost Estimators
Weld, Solder, & Brazing Machine Setters, Operators, & Tenders Machinists
Hot Computer Softw are Engineers, Applications
Medical Assistants
Hot Physician Assistants
Hot Netw ork & Computer Systems Administrators
Computer-Controlled Machine Tool Operators, Metal
Welders, Cutters, Solderers, & Brazers
Hot Computer Softw are Engineers, Systems
Softw are

5.5% 5.1% 5.1% 4.9% 4.7% 4.4% 4.2% 4.1% 4.1% 4.1% 4.1% 4.0% 3.9% 3.9% 3.9% 3.9%

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 computer-related and three are in the healthcare industry.
Eleven of these occupations do not require any formal education beyond high school.
Six have earned the "HOT" label on a statewide basis for this period.

Occupations with the Most Annual Openings

Retail Salespersons
Cashiers
Comb Food Prep & Serv Workers, Incl Fast Food
Waiters & Waitresses Laborers & Freight, Stock, & Material Movers,
Hand
Hot Elem School Teachers, Except Special Ed
Teacher Assistants
Hot General & Operations Managers
Customer Service Representatives Janitors & Cleaners, Exc Maids & Housekeeping
Cleaners
Hot Sales Reps, Whlsl & Mfg, Exc Tech & Scientific
Products
Hot Registered Nurses
Team Assemblers
Truck Drivers, Heavy & Tractor-Trailer
Child Care Workers
Office Clerks, General
Stock Clerks & Order Fillers

360 310 250 230 200 180 140 140 130 130 120 120 120 110 110 110 110

Most of the job openings in this list will result from the need to replace workers who change jobs rather than from new job creation.
Ten require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less.
On a statewide level, four of these occupations have been designated "HOT" for the 2004-2014 projections period.
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 #9 NE Georgia
This area is made of 12 counties in northeast Georgia in and around the city of Athens. It includes the following counties: Barrow, Clarke, Elbert, Greene, Jackson, Jasper, Madison, Morgan, Newton, Oconee, Oglethorpe and Walton.
Workforce Information & Analysis Division
Georgia Department of Labor Michael L. Thurmond Commissioner

Total Industry Growth
Total employment in WIA Area #9 is expected to grow from more than 185,000 jobs in 2004 to more than 225,000 by the year 2014, which equates to almost 4,000 new jobs added each year. The area is home to the state's flagship university, the University of Georgia. The main industries are higher education, health services, agriculture, nonmetallic mineral product manufacturing, wood product manufacturing, and to a lesser degree, poultry processing.
The top ten industries in this area with the most job growth are listed below.

Educational Services

6,900

Administrative & Support Services

5,100

Food Services & Drinking Places

4,140

Fabricated Metal Product Mfg
Local Government, Excl Education & Hospitals
Specialty Trade Contractors

1,800 1,730 1,640

Heavy & Civil Engineering Construction

1,600

Ambulatory Health Care Services

1,580

General Merchandise Stores

1,520

Self-Employed & Unpd Family Workers

1,320

Industry Rate of Growth
The area's economy is currently growing slightly faster than Georgia's overall, with expected job growth of 2.0 percent per year over the next ten years, as compared to 1.7 percent for the state.
The ten fastest growing industries in this area are listed below.

Fabricated Metal Product Mfg
Warehousing & Storage
Whlsl Electronic Markets & Agents & Brokers
Heavy & Civil Engineering Construction
Internet Serv Providers, Web Search Portals, & Data Proc Srvs
Waste Management & Remediation Service
Lessors of Nonfinan Intang Assets (exc Copyrighted Works)
Administrative & Support Services
Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, & Related
Sporting Goods, Hobby, Book, & Music Stores

7.6% 7.6% 6.3% 6.1% 5.7% 5.4% 5.3% 5.0% 4.4% 4.3%

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Occupations with the Most Job Growth

Retail Salespersons
Comb Food Prep & Serv Workers, Incl Fast Food
Hot Elem School Teachers, Exc Special Ed
Laborers & Freight, Stock, & Material Movers, Hand
Waiters & Waitresses
Customer Service Representatives Janitors & Cleaners, Exc Maids & Housekeeping
Cleaners
Hot General & Operations Managers
Teacher Assistants
Hot Registered Nurses
Cashiers
Truck Drivers, Heavy & Tractor-Trailer
Hot Sales Reps, Whlsl & Mfg, Exc Tech & Scientific
Products Construction Laborers
Team Assemblers

1,080 950 940 890 890 830 810 800 700 690 690 680 620 570

1,510

These 15 occupations out of more than 700 - are projected to more than 12,500 jobs over the next 10 years, about onethird of all projected job growth in this area.
Seven occupations require short-term on-the-job training of one month or less and three require a college degree.
Four of these occupations have made the coveted list of Georgia's "HOT" Careers to 2014 for their fast job growth, high wages, and plentiful job openings during this series of projections.