The Best Places for Construction Jobs - August 07
The best places to find a job is where employment growth exceeds the workforce growth rate. When this happens, there is less competition for jobs ... and that creates opportunities higher salaries and a faster job search.
Here are the fastest-growing metropolitan areas for Construction as of August 2007. Compare these to the United States workforce growth of 1.3% in the last 12 months, 6% in the last 5 years and 12% in the last 10 years. Each has grown faster than the workforce based on all three.
- Tacoma, WA 8.5% 50% 88%
- Houston-Sugar Land-Baytown, TX 6.3% 6% 33%
- Jackson, MS 6.0% 16% 21%
- Bangor, ME 5.9% 24% 57%
- Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA 5.7% 28% 45%
- Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA 5.3% 29% 58%
- Oklahoma City, OK 4.9% 24% 46%
- Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA 4.5% 17% 59%
- Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton, OR-WA 4.4% 28% 21%
- Salinas, CA 4.2% 12% 63%
- Salem, OR 4.1% 44% 34%
- Coeur d'Alene, ID 3.2% 68% 83%
- Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Marietta, GA 2.1% 15% 40%
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA 1.9% 7% 22%
- Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Goleta, CA 1.9% 36% 51%
- Tulsa, OK 1.8% 6% 41%
- Birmingham-Hoover, AL 1.4% 12% 13%
These data were compiled by Mark Hovind of www.JobBait.com using Bureau of Labor Statistics through July 2007. The original data sources are available at www.bls.gov.
By Mark Hovind and courtesy of CareerHub.com. The Career Hub blog connects job seekers with experts in career counseling, resume writing, personal branding and recruiting.
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