In honor of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies (NASWA) Workforce Summit/81st Annual Meeting being held October 2017 in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, we want to provide attendees and other potential visitors with some essential local knowledge and a few insights related to Coeur d’Alene’s economy.
“High-skill job groups are projected to continue pacing occupational growth as groups requiring the most education and training are estimated to grow faster than average”
Over the past five years, transportation equipment manufacturers have experienced some of the fastest employment growth within the manufacturing sector. Employment for these manufacturers in the United States grew an annual average 2.6% over the five years ending with the second quarter of 2017 compared with an annual average 1.7% for the total manufacturing sector. Within transportation equipment, employment grew the fastest for manufacturers that produced motor vehicles (+4.8%), motor vehicle bodies and trailers (+4.8%), and motor vehicle parts (+4.7%).
Most people probably wouldn’t be too surprised to learn that employment at online retailers or internet publishing and web search portal firms grew at a double-digit annual average pace over the past 10 years ending with 2016.
Rhode Island may be nicknamed the “Ocean State,” but “Marine” appears more often in online job ads than “Ocean” does.