Of the industries with the largest job growth, Atlanta science jobs are expected to grow the most through 2014.
The number of Georgia employees in professional, scientific and technical services is expected to reach 88,930 by 2014, up from 69,520 in 2004. This is an addition of 19,410 Atlanta jobs, or an overall growth of 27.9 percent or 2.5 percent per year.
According to the Georgia Department of Labor, other industries with the largest projected statewide job growth through 2014 include:
- food service and drinking places by 23.8 percent
- administrative and support services by 16.2 percent
- education services by 21.5 percent
- hospitals by 35.3 percent
- ambulatory healthcare services by 30.3 percent
- religious, grantmaking, civic, professional and similar organizations by 24.4 percent
- accommodation by 24.5 percent
- personal and laundry services by 36.4 percent
- self-employed and unpaid family workers by 14.5 percent
The Atlanta-Sandy Spring-Marietta area saw a total non-farm employment of 2,433,300 during September 2008, down from 2,450,500 during August and a decrease of 1.4 percent from last year. The only industries to see an over-the-year employment increase were: information by .3 percent, education and health services by 2.9 percent, and other services by .8 percent.
Georgia as a whole saw a total non-farm employment of 4,092,800 during September, down from 4,115,100 during August and a decrease of 1.5 percent from last year. The only industry to see an over-the-year increase in employment was education and health services, which grew by 2.1 percent. All other industries in the state lost jobs.
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