Tuesday, September 28, 2010

New Jobs to Come to the Western Upstate of South Carolina

Western Upstate Area expected to gain jobs by 2014

 According to an article I saw in the Anderson Independent Newspaper on September 22, 2010, the South Carolina Department of Commerce says the Worklink Workforce Area of Anderson, Pickens and Oconee counties is expected to add more than 4,000 jobs by 2016. This will be great for our economy here in the Western Upstate of South Carolina!
According to the Commerce Department, the added jobs will include:
• Accountants and Auditors
• Dental hygienists
• Education administrators, postsecondary
• Educational, vocational and school counselors
• Elementary school teachers (except special education)
• Executive secretaries and administrative assistants
• Industrial engineering technicians
• Industrial engineers
• Kindergarten teachers (except special education)
• Medical and health services managers
• Middle school teachers (except special and vocational education)
• Pharmacists
• Physical therapists
• Police and sheriff’s patrol officers
• Secondary school teachers (except special and vocational education)
• Special education teachers (preschool, kindergarten and elementary school)
• Supervisors/managers of landscaping, lawn service and groundskeeping workers
“All of these occupations meet three specific criteria: a projected growth of more than 3 percent (by 2016), an increase of at least 25 jobs for each field during that period and a current average salary level of at least $33,720,” a survey report said.
Most new jobs will be associated with elementary school teachers, the report said.
The best-paid jobs are for pharmacists with an average current salary of $105,910.
Anderson County is expected to have more than 246 annual openings for pharmacy jobs.
The worst prospects in the area are expected to be in the textile industry and jobs for filing clerks. The South Carolina Employment and Workforce projections show textile knitting and weaving machine operators losing more than 2,300 jobs between 2006 and 2016.
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