America's best jobs in the hottest markets
SEATTLE, WA
2-year job-growth forecast: 5.0%
Newcomers are still moving here in droves: 34,000 in 2006 alone. Good thing the largest employers have plenty of work for them. A resurgent Boeing added about 5,000 folks to its Washington payrolls last year. Microsoft is expanding its Redmond campus and will continue a hiring spurt that brought in 7,000 new employees in 2006. America's best jobs in the hottest markets
Apparently you did not venture to far on the CNN web site...oops, lol. Personally I believe 5% job growth in the next two years is quite good!
deejayoh - The main part of the article I posted was about "knowledge workers" (out of the top 5 referenced in the country by CNN)...the 5% job growth in the next two years was just a side note in the burb.
Overall even with 2.5% it is going to be much better than most other areas of the country. The main point is that of the people moving to the Seattle region more of them will be higher paying jobs...isnt that a good thing?
Not high enough to support the outlandishly bloated home prices we have here.
Wage growth hasn't even kept pace with inflation (real inflation), so how do you expect it to keep pace with the rediculous prices we've seen in this an other bubble markets.
synthetik: I think you confused what I was saying. I was talking about the rate of Job Growth (how many new jobs are added), not the rate of Growth in Wages.
The Seattle Times today reported that the Job Growth in the City of Seattle (excluding the burbs) is expected to be ~3.3% in 2007 while the entire State of Washington would be ~2.5%.
deejayoh: I wasnt debating the stat you said about the Seattle area being the 86th fastest growing job region, yet was saying that they were better quality jobs (instead of just the quantitiy jobs) as reported in the CNN article.
How many markets were reported in the study you pasted into your prior post? Is it 100, 200, or 300 cities, which would show what percentile we are in. Example: being 86th out of 250 cities wouldnt be that bad.
K, I was in Chicago for the weekend, which is why I didn't respond to finance's stupid reply with an article giving a job growth forecast.
Sheesh, who made the forecast? Dr. Lereah?
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America's best jobs in the hottest markets
SEATTLE, WA
2-year job-growth forecast: 5.0%
Newcomers are still moving here in droves: 34,000 in 2006 alone. Good thing the largest employers have plenty of work for them. A resurgent Boeing added about 5,000 folks to its Washington payrolls last year. Microsoft is expanding its Redmond campus and will continue a hiring spurt that brought in 7,000 new employees in 2006. America's best jobs in the hottest markets
Apparently you did not venture to far on the CNN web site...oops, lol. Personally I believe 5% job growth in the next two years is quite good!
I guess it sounds good if you don't compare it to any other area or history.
and business 2.0 is such a rag it's incredible. it's like litter that is still being blown around from the dot-com implosion
Overall even with 2.5% it is going to be much better than most other areas of the country. The main point is that of the people moving to the Seattle region more of them will be higher paying jobs...isnt that a good thing?
Wage growth hasn't even kept pace with inflation (real inflation), so how do you expect it to keep pace with the rediculous prices we've seen in this an other bubble markets.
I'd characterize that article as a puff piece, with no real thought put into who they featured or what the numbers really meant
remember this little factoid:
and in the same time our income growth was nearly flat. Business 2.0's forecast vs. what's actually happening. I'll take the latter
The Seattle Times today reported that the Job Growth in the City of Seattle (excluding the burbs) is expected to be ~3.3% in 2007 while the entire State of Washington would be ~2.5%.
deejayoh: I wasnt debating the stat you said about the Seattle area being the 86th fastest growing job region, yet was saying that they were better quality jobs (instead of just the quantitiy jobs) as reported in the CNN article.
How many markets were reported in the study you pasted into your prior post? Is it 100, 200, or 300 cities, which would show what percentile we are in. Example: being 86th out of 250 cities wouldnt be that bad.
Sheesh, who made the forecast? Dr. Lereah?
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Tard.