Skill Gap Analysis Identifies High Employer Demand Fields

Each year, the Workforce Training and Education Coordinating Board conducts an analysis that results in identifying mid-level high employer demand occupation groups. The list of high demand occupations help guide the investments of workforce development programs and services. Methodology. Here's a look at supply and demand of Washington workers by education level and the high demand fields.

Examples of jobs in the above high-demand fields - (Links take you to CareerBridge.wa.gov website which is an online search tool designed to help you find the training and education you need to get the job you want.)

Registered Nurse (59 programs)
Industrial Machinery Mechanics (25 programs)
Telecommunications Equipment Installers/Repairers(31 telecom-related programs)
Accounting Assistants & Technicians (70 programs)
Chemical technicians (8 programs)
Firefighter (26 programs)

Statewide Skill Gap Number

This year's analysis was updated January 2012.

The average annual employer demand for all workers with mid-level education and training is expected to be 43,000 net openings between 2014 and 2019. In 2010, 34,000 Washington residents completed their mid-level training and education. If that completion number remains the same going into the future, the project midl-level skill gap is 9,000 workers per year.

CareerBridge.Wa.Gov provides you with information regarding the average pay of a particular job to the specific program in your area that can help you get that job. Career Bridge also can tell you how successful the program you are interested in is in training and getting people jobs in their professions.