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Perspectives on Utahs Econo

Types of Households in Utah

Whatare

Utah'sHighest

PayingJobs?

POPulation Culture:Facts about the 2010 Census

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4 Types o Households in UtahThe Outskirts

6 A Perspective on ConstructionWasatch Front and Statewide

8POPulation Culture: What the 2010

Census Tells Us About UtahThe Outlook

10Utah is Getting Back to Work

DWS News

12Employment Services Industry as a

Leading Indicator o Total EmploymentEconomic Insight

14 Recession Keeps More Americans in PlaceNational News

16 Pay in Utah

Economic News

18New Occupational Wage Data

Published in the Utah Economic Data Viewer

Insider News

20What's Your Location Quotient?

For Your Information

22If You Thought Wages Go Down in

a Recession, Think Again

What's Happening

24 Anesthesiologists: Conquering PainOccupations

26 ManufacturingIndustry Highlight

27 Just the Facts...Rate Update

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Occupational

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Census DataFor Utah

July/August 2011

UtahWage Data

PLUSCensus Data

Perspectiveson UtahsEconomy

TypesofHouseholds inUtah

Whatare

Utah'sHighest

PayingJobs?

POPulation Culture:

Facts about the2010Census

Department ofWorkforce Services

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the outskirts | by jim robson, economist

Types ofHouseholdsin Utah

The 2010 Census shows that married couples havedropped below hal o all households in the UnitedStates or the rst time in history. The demographic

trend o ewer amily households has been documented

by each Census since WWII. In 2010, married couplesrepresented 48 percent o households in the U.S. com-pared to 55 percent in 2000, and considerably below the78 percent o households recorded in the 1950 Census.

I you dene a traditional amily as being a marriedcouple with children less than 18 years o age, just 20percent o households would qualiy in 2010 compared to25 percent a decade ago and 43 percent in 1950.

Some o the societal trends that help explain thechanging composition o U.S. households include: lessrigid gender roles, increased labor orce participation owomen, increased educational attainment, lower ertility

rates, higher divorce rates with rising numbers o singleparent households, delaying the age o marriage, andrising income inequality. In addition, with people livinglonger there is an ever growing number o elderly peopleliving alone or in non-amily households.

Within Utah all o these national trends are evident andhave changed the composition o Utah amilies andhouseholds. Yet Utah continues to display its uniquedemographic characteristics, the youngest populationwith a median age o 29.7 (the U.S. median age 35.8),

and the largest household and amily sizes o anystate. In Utah, married couples comprise 61 percent ohouseholds and 32 percent have such amilies withchildren under 18.

Among Utahs counties there is substantial variation inthe percentage o amily households. Morgan Countyhas the highest percent o married-couple amilies with79.2, while Utah County leads them or the highestpercentage o households that are married-coupleswith children. Grand County has the lowest percentageo married-coupled households or such householdswith children. Notably, Grand County has the highestpercentage (30.7 percent) o single person households inthe state. The state average or single person householdsis 18.7 percent.

The Census Bureau has released a prole o characteristics

gleaned rom the 2010 Census or the ull range ogeographic detail in the United States including states,counties, cities, and towns. These data include therelationships o individuals living in households whetherthey are amily or non-amily households. Each decennialcensus chronicles the changing population in thedierent regions and communities o Utah.

2010 Census results are available at the American Fact-Finder: http://actnder2.census.gov/aces/nav/js/pages/index.xhtml.
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2010 Census Married-Couple Householdsas a Percent of Total Households

CoutPercet

Mrried-Couple

Households

Morg 79.2

Rich 71.4

Uth 69.9

Wstch 68.7

Jub 68.5

Dis 68.0

Emer 67.9

Millrd 67.7

Box Elder 67.4

Seier 65.4

Cche 65.2

Piute 65.1

Spete 65.1

Duchese 64.7

Wshigto 64.6

Tooele 64.5Beer 63.2

Uith 61.7

We 61.2

Sttewide 61.0

Summit 60.7

Iro 60.6

Dggett 59.6

Garfeld 59.3

Ke 56.8

Weber 56.7

S Ju 55.1

Slt Lke 54.8

Crbo 54.5

U.S. 48.4

Grd 44.7

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2010 Census.

Cout

Percet

Mrried-Couple

Households with

Childre Uder 18

Uth 41.7

Morg 40.3

Dis 37.4

Jub 37.1

Tooele 36.9

Wstch 36.5

Cche 35.0

Box Elder 33.8

Duchese 32.5

Beer 32.1

Sttewide 31.7

Uith 31.5

Millrd 31.3

Spete 30.7

Emer 30.5

Rich 30.1Seier 30.1

Summit 30.0

Iro 29.7

Slt Lke 27.7

Weber 27.4

Wshigto 26.9

We 26.5

S Ju 26.4

Piute 24.1

Garfeld 21.7

Crbo 21.6

Dggett 20.4

U.S. 20.2

Ke 19.1

Grd 16.6

If a traditional

family is a married

couple withchildren under 18,

just 20 percent of

households would

qualify in 2010

compared to 43

percent in 1950.


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wasatch front and statewide |by mark knold, chief economist

The industry does not need those40,000 jobs to return to be healthy.It can be argued that it was an ex-

cess o jobs that made it unhealthy in therst place. Historically, construction ac-counts or around 6 percent o the Utahemployment base. At the height o theconstruction boom in 2007, that propor-tion had risen to over 8 percent. In hind-

sight, we will have to label that as bothunsustainable and unhealthy.

Currently, construction has receded toaround 5.5 percent o Utahs employmentoundation. This implies there is room orconstructions job share to move higherto regain its potential contribution. Butit doesnt have to increase dramaticallyto do that (about 5,000 additionalconstruction jobs would propel thisindustry to approximating a 6-percentemployment share). Going orward, i theUtah economy were to return to its long-term 3.2-percent annual overall growthrate, and construction re-established andmaintained its 6-percent share o overallemployment, it would take approximately13 years to replace those departed 40,000jobs. That oers some perspective as tohow infated the construction industryhad become in Utah.

How could Utah increase its constructionemployment level so ar above its historicnorm? By borrowing workers romelsewhere. Many o the homebuilding

workers o the recent boom weretransitory, out-o-state types who camehere or a job. Many o them have sincelet. The point is that Utah does not needto re-create 40,000 construction jobsto re-employ 40,000 unemployed Utahconstruction workers. Utah only needsenough new jobs to re-employ the idledwho remain.

*Bureau of Labor Statistics seasonally-adjusted series.

A Perspective on

ConstructionUtahs

constructionindustrys worst

days are behind it,but employmentlevels have yet to

make any kindo healing

rebound. Utah

construction jobshave increased by900 over the past

12 months, butkeep in mind thatthis rise is rom arock bottom loss

o some 40,000construction jobs*

over the pastthree-plus years.


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the outlook |by lecia parks langston, economist

Honestly, Ive struggled to write this article. Its not

that I dont love delving into the Census 2010 data;I do. Its not that there isnt enough to write about.There is. Whats my problem? So much data, so little spaceto write about it. In the end, Ive just decided to whet yourappetite with a ew o the interesting acts about Utahrevealed by the 2010 Census.

But rst, lets do a little review. The 2010 Census orm wasone o the shortest in history. The Census Bureau onlyasked Americans ten questions related to name, gender,age, race, ethnicity, relationship, and whether they rentedor owned their home. In other words, no one was askedincome, employment, or other detailed demographicinormation (questions previously on the long orm). I

you are waiting or that type o inormation to be releasedrom the 2010 Census, stop waiting! Detailed demographicstatistics are now available on a regular basis rom theAmerican Community Survey (conducted by the U.S.Census Bureau).

The Census Bureau is steadily releasing data rom the2010 Census. As I write, data proles or states, counties,and places are available. Inormation or smallergeographies (such as Census tracts) should be releasedlater this summer. These data releases can be accessed at

the Census Bureaus New American Factnder web site

(http://actnder2.census.gov). Ill warn you right now,the interace is not all that user-riendly, but the site doesinclude tutorials. Plus, the data is certainly worth theeort. Here are those ew ascinating Census 2010 acts tospark your interest:

Although Utahs median age increased rom 27.1 in2000 to 29.2 in 2010 (thanks to aging baby boomersit is all about us), Utah is still the youngest state inthe nation. (In Maine, the median age is a whopping42.7 years.) In addition, Utah still shows the largestshare o population under the age o 18 (32 percent).

Utah exhibits the second lowest percentage opopulation in the 65-years-and-older category (9percent). Only Alaska maintains a smaller share oseniors7.7 percent.

Between 2000 and 2010, Utah population ranked asthe third astest growing in the nation (24 percent).And, it was surrounded by other ast-growersNevada (astest), Arizona (second), and Idaho(ourth). Incidentally, Nevada has been the astestgrowing state in the nation or ve straight decades.


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Two o Utahs Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) rankedamong the astest-growing in the country. The St. GeorgeMSAWashington Countyranked second, and the

Provo-Orem MSAUtah and Juab countiesranked sixth.

Five o Utahs countiesSalt Lake, Davis, Utah, andWashingtonadded 40,000 or more residents to theirpopulations between 2000 and 2010.

Hispanics and Latinos comprise Utahs largest ethnic/racialminority13 percent o the population. (Just a reminderthe Hispanic/Latino designation represents an ethnicgroup not a race. Individuals classied in this categorycan be a member o any racial group.) Asianswith just2 percent o total populationmake up the next largestminority group.

Utahs Hispanic/Latino population has exploded over thelast decade with a 78-percent growth rate. In act, almost allminority classications experienced more rapid populationgrowth than the majority white population. This isprobably due not only to in-migration but dierences inbirth/death rates. Interestingly, Utahs Native AmericanIndian population barely changed between 2000 and 2010.

Which Utah county shows the largest minoritypopulation? It is San Juan County with its large share oNative American residents. Roughly 56 percent o San JuanCountys population can be considered an ethnic or racialminority. (Once a group accounts or more than hal the

population, can it truly be considered a minority?) MorganCounty shows the least racial/ethnic diversityless than 4percent o its population belongs to a minority group.

Nationally, roughly 35 percent o the population canbe categorized as a racial or ethnic minority. Statewide,minorities made up almost 20 percent o the populationin 2010. While we may not think o Utah as particularlydiverse, 13 states have even less diverse populations.

Utah has the smallest share o population ininstitutionalized group quarters (0.8 percent) o any statein the nation. This population group includes peopleunder ormally authorized, supervised care or custody in

institutions such as prisons, detention centers, nursinghomes, mental hospitals, residential care acilities, live-inschools, etc.

Who has the largest amilies in the nation? Yes, it is Utahwith an average o 3.56 persons per amily. However,Caliornia ranks a close second with 3.45 persons peramily.

Now your data appetite should be thoroughly stimulated. So digin and enjoy!

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2%

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Wasatch

Washington

Tooele

UtahIron

Morgan

Duchesne

Uintah

Davis

Juab

State

Cache

Sanpete

Summit

Kane

Weber

Box ElderRich

Daggett

Salt Lake

Wayne

Sevier

Beaver

Gareld

Grand

Piute

Carbon

San Juan

Emery

Millard

20002010 PopulationGrowth

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2000 and 2010 Census.

American Indian/Alaskan 2%

White 17%

Asian 48%

Two or More Races 56%

African American 61%

Native Pacic Islander 61%

Hispanic/Latino 78%

Total Population 24%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau; 2010 Census.

20002010 Growthin Utahs Population by Race and Ethnicity



dws news| by michelle beebe, senior business analyst & stacy neal, lmi specialist

In July 2010, Utahs Department oWorkorce Services initiated the Backto Work hiring incentive program.

Back to Work (BTW) was designedto help preserve the UnemploymentInsurance (UI) trust und and stimulatejob growth by providing eligibleemployers with up to $2,000 or eacheligible participant they hire andretain or at least three months. Thiscash incentive can be combined withthe ederal Work Opportunity TaxCredits and the Bonding programwhen appropriate, which can amountto a great deal o revenue and savingsor hiring the right applicants. In arecessionary job market where there isno shortage o talented workers, this hasbeen an amazing opportunity or Utahemployers to literally cash in. To date,795 Utah employers have enrolled toparticipate in BTW.

Utah is

Getting Backto Work

To date, 795 Utah employershave enrolled to participate inthe Back to Work Program.


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Inactive Status

23%

Actively Filing

31%No Claim Filed

35%

Claim Exhausted

11%

A recent evaluation o BTW has shownthere are 3,506 Utah UI claimantsenrolled in the Back to Work programbeore or during their unemploymentbenet year. They constitute 65 percento the total program enrollments; theremaining 35 percent are enrolled ina BTW Youth version o the program.O these individuals, 1,261 have anunexpired claim with an availablebalance that they are not activelyling against.

The potential savings to the employer-unded UI Trust Fund based ontheir remaining claim balanceequals $2,287,741. There is also apotential savings to the ederally-unded Emergency UnemploymentCompensation (EUC) program, shouldthese individuals maintain theiremployment.

Back to Work ParticipantClaim Status

For more inormation on the

Back to Work Program and

how to enroll visit:

http://jobs.utah.gov/btw/employer.html

http://jobs.utah.gov/btw/jsclaimant.html

Enrolled in Back to Work Program 5,389

Unemployment claimants 3,506

Claimants with inactive status 1,261

Potential savings to UI Trust Fund $2,287,741



economic insight |by jane gardner, labor market information specialist

In the ebb and fow o the economywouldnt it be nice to oreseea downturn or recession? The

temporary help services industry canbe that canary in the coal mine.

Temp help services is not only animportant and reliable means oremployers to supplement and balancetheir workorces, it has also emergedas a leading employment indicatorAccording to the Bureau o LaborStatistics, the temporary help servicesindustry is considered an indicatoro the overall economy becausemovements in temp employmenoten have been a precursor to changesin the broader labor market.1 In2009 the American Stang Agency

commissioned a study to statisticallytest the strength o this relationshipThe study concluded that particularlyin the current decade temporary helpemployment was strong as both a one-and two-quarter leading indicator ononarm employment.2

Can we observe this indicator inemployment trends or Utah? We tookseasonally adjusted employment datarom the Current Employment Statisticsprogram (CES) and calculated the

month-over percentage change or theEmployment Services (5613) industryand total employment. Our time spancovers two recessionary periods: March2001 to Nov 2001 and December 2007to June 2009. We observed severapoints where employment servicesappeared to be out ahead o changes in

Employment Services IndustryTemporary Help as a Leading Indicator of Total Employment

The temporary help services industry

is considered an indicator of the overall

economy because movements in temp

employment often have been a precursor to

changes in the broader labor market.



total employment in periods o bothgrowth and decline. In July o 1999,you can see employment servicesemployment began to all seven-months beore total employment

started declining in February 2000.In June 2001 employment servicesstarted growing eight-months beoretotal employment started to increase.Likewise in July 2005, employmentservices started to decline six-monthsprior to a decline in total employmentin January 2006. Employmentservices employment also began togrow in February 2009 two-monthsprior to growth in total employmentin April 2009.

Can we conclude that the employ-

ment services/temporary help servicesindustry in Utah acts as a leading indi-cator o the overall labor market? Yes,the chart demonstrates that this rela-tionship exists.

Notes

1Tian Luo, Amar Mann, and RichardHolden, The expanding role otemporary help services rom 1990 to2008, Monthly Labor Review Online,Aug. 2010, pp. 1.

2American Stang Association. (June2009). Stang jobs as economic andemployment indicators. Alexandria,VA: American Stang Association onthe Internet at www.americanstang.net/ statistics/pd/Stang_Jobs_as_Indicators.pd.

Employment Services Industryas a Leading Indicator of Utah'sTotal Employment

Source: Current Employment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Between 2009 and 2010, 37.5million people in the U.S.moved at least once to new

quarters. This amounts to 12.5

percent o all people 1 year o age orolder.

Most people who moved, 27.0million or 69.3 percent omovers, still reside in thesame county. The 10.6million who moved by2010 to a new county,comprise about 3.5 percento the population. This is

the lowest percentage oout-o-county migrants since

the U.S. Census Bureau begankeeping such records in 1947.The previous year, 11 millionpeople moved to a dierentcounty. Between 2004 and2005 or example, when theeconomy was fourishing,15.8 million people moved to

a new county.

The enduring eects o the re-cessionrelatively high unem-

ployment, housing diculties ooreclosures and alling prices, and

slow job growthhave restrainedthe mobility o Americans.

Mobility inormation collected bythe Census Bureau rom its monthlyCurrent Population Survey hasshown over the years that duringtimes o recession with less economicopportunity, domestic migrationslows. The lack o mobility in our

current economy is worse than usual.Oten, when there is a U.S. recession,while some parts o the countryexperience economic diculties

there are other areas that are doingwell. This last, so called greatrecession, which contained a severenancial crisis, touched all areas othe country.

There are about 80 tables providedby the Census Bureau that highlightother demographic and economiccharacteristics related to the mobilityo Americans, including:

The mover rate variesconsiderably by region o the

country with Westerners (14.7percent moving) more likely tochange address.

The unemployed (19.8 percent)have a greater propensity tomove than the employed (12.4percent), while 9.5 percent othose not in the labor orce weremovers.

People who had incomes belowthe poverty level (23.5 percent)change address more requently

than those above the povertylevel (10.7 percent).

Dierences between racial/ethnic groups revealed thatBlacks had the highest moverrate at 16.7 percent, ollowed byHispanics (15.6 percent), Asians(13.9 percent) and Whites notHispanic (10.8 percent).

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national news |by jim robson,economist

RecessionKeeps More Americans in PlaceNumbers of people moving are down; but most of those whodid move still reside in the same county.



The complete series o statistical tablesrom Geographic Mobility: 2010 thatdetail types, distances, characteristics,and reasons that people change

address can be ound on the CensusBureau web site:

http://www.census.gov/hhes/migration/data/cps/cps2010.html.

Total Movers

(in thousands)37,540

Where did they Move:

Same County 26,017 69.3%

Diferent County

Same State 6,252 16.7%

Diferent State 4,326 11.5%

Abroad 946 2.5%

Mobilityin the United StatesDestination: 2009 to 2010

Source: U.S. Census Bureau,

Current Population Survey.

Source:U.S.

CensusBureau,

CurrentP

opulationSurvey.

Total Movers (Population 1+ years in thousands) 37,540

Family Reason

Change in marital status 7.3%

To establish own household 11.2%

Other amily reason 11.7%

Job Related

New job or job transer 7.8%

To look or work or lost job 2.6%

To be closer to work/easier commute 4.2%

Retired 0.5%

Other job related reason 1.3%

Housing Reason

Wanted own home, not rent 4.6%

Wanted new or better home/ apartment 15.5%

Wanted better neighborhood /less crime 4.1%

Wanted cheaper housing 10.8%

Other housing reason 8.7%

Other Reasons

To attend or leave college 2.7%

Change o climate 0.6%

Health reasons 1.5%

Natural disaster 0.3%

Other reasons 4.4%

Mobility in the United StatesReason for Move: 2009 to 2010
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economic news | by john mathews, economist

The highest-paid proessions in Utah in 2010 were doctors, dentists,lawyers, and engineering managers. The states lowest paid positionsincluded hosts and hostesses, counter attendants in ood service, ood

preparation workers, dishwashers, and ast-ood cooks.

This inormation is rom the annual Occupational Employment Statistics(OES) Survey, which produces estimates o wages or workers in about 600occupations and nine geographic areas in Utah. Some 4,000 employers aresurveyed annually to collect this important inormation. The highest-paidworkers in Utah are in healthcare with medical doctors o dierent specialties

median annual earnings o $100,000 to $200,000. Engineering managers,sales engineers, chie executives, pharmacists, and computer and inormationsystems managers all had median annual earnings o $100,000 to $130,000.

Hourly rates or the lowest paid included mostly service workers, such asdining room and caeteria attendants ($8.36), ast-ood cooks ($8.43),dishwashers ($8.45), combined ood preparation and service workers ($8.46),and hosts and hostesses ($8.61). Obviously most workers all in betweenthe highest and lowest paid. Here are the median hourly wages or somerecognizable occupations not in the highest or lowest paid list, but those wecan all identiy with listed at the right.

Accountants & Auditors $27.17

Automotive ServiceTechnicians & Mechanics 18.70

Bookkeeping, Accounting,& Auditing Clerks 14.93

Carpenters 17.78

Cashiers 8.89

Childcare Workers 8.99

Computer Programmers 31.44

Dental Hygienists 32.51

Pharmacists 53.83

Plumbers, Pipetters, &Steamtters $20.72

Registered Nurses 28.41

Retail Salespersons 10.23Secretaries & Admin.Assistants, except Legal,Medical, & Executive 13.68

Shipping, Receiving, &Trac Clerks 13.24

Telemarketers 11.20

Heavy & Tractor-TrailerTruck Drivers 19.12

Payin Utah


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Wages vary by geographic area. The pay gures on page 16 are statewidemedian wages. Wage inormation is available or nine geographic areas*in Utah. For example, registered nurses made $26.07 per hour in CacheCounty compared to $29.23 per hour in Salt Lake City.

Also, wage levels vary by labor market area. To the right is a listing othe median wages or each o the nine sub-state areas. Many actorsare at play that can cause area pay dierentials. A primary one isthe composition and size o industries in an area. Concentrations oemploymentareas that have most o the jobswill typically havehigher median wages with the exceptions o areas where high payindustries have a much larger share o employment than do others. BoxElder County is an example o the latter. Over 30 percent o Box Eldersemployment is concentrated in the high-paying manuacturing sector.

The types or categories o wage data include the inexperienced wage,average wage, median wage, and the middle range o wages or eachoccupation. Which wage measure should you use? For the newly

employed, with little or no experience, you would use the inexperiencedwage. For someone with experience and training, use the average ormedian wage. The average is the wage weighted by employment in theoccupations. When the wages o all persons in an occupation are orderedrom the lowest to highest, the median wage is simply the wage o themiddle worker in that list, and the middle range o wages is the wagerange o the middle 50 percent o workers.

You can get wage rates two ways. One is by accessing the wage tablesavailable online at http://jobs.utah.gov/jsp/wi/utalmis/gotoOccwage.do,select the geographic area you are interested in, click the continue boxand then select at the top portion o the page a list o all occupationsor the area. These are alphabetical listings o occupations with wagesby geographic area. The other method is a customer-driven computeraccess through the Department o Workorce Services web sites UtahEconomic Data Viewer (UEDV) at http://jobs.utah.gov/jsp/wi/utalmis/gotoOccwage.do. Select a geographic area then select a job title youwish, then click continue.

jobs.utah.gov/wi Trendlines 1Trendlines 1

Statewide $31,290

Sl Lk Cy MSa (SaltLake, Summit, Tooele) $32,870

Box elr/Rch Couns $32,130

esrn Uh (Carbon,Daggett, Duchesne, Emery,Grand, San Juan, Uintah,Wasatch) $31,730

Ogn-Clrfl MSa

(Davis, Morgan, Weber) $30,320Provo-Orm MSa (Juab,Utah) $29,780

Cnrl Uh (Millard,Piute, Sanpete, Sevier,Wayne) $28,000

wshngon Couny MSa $27,790

Cch Couny MSa $27,620

Souhs (Beaver,Garfeld, Iron, Kane) $27,200

*Nine geographical areas:

Box Elder and RichCounties

Central and WesternRural Counties

Eastern RuralCounties,

Logan MetropolitanStatistical Area (MSA)

Ogden-Cleareld MSA

Provo-Orem MSA

St. George MSA

Salt Lake City MSA

Southwestern RuralCounties

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nsider news |by stacy neal, labor market information specialist

OccupationalWage DataPublished in the Utah Economic Data Viewer


19/28Trendlines 1jobs.utah.gov/wi

Businesses need to provide a competitive wageto attract workers with the qualities they need,while paying attention to their bottom line. Jobapplicants have a variety o budgetary concernscontributing to their salary requirements andwant to be airly compensated.

Since it is not common to have specic knowledgeo what competitors pay or what colleagues earn,the data can be surprising. Some businesses payunusually high or low wages compared to otherrms, and this might infuence the expectationso each group. Luckily or everyone in the labormarket, Utahs Department o Workorce Servicesprovides a valuable data source that can serveall interests.

Each year, the Department o Workorce Servicesgathers wages rom employers through theOccupational Employment Statistics Survey.This inormation can be ound in the UtahEconomic Data Viewers Occupational Wageseature: http://jobs.utah.gov/jsp/wi/utalmis/gotoOccwage.do. Occupational wage data, thatcan guide businesses and job seekers in theirdecision-making, have just been released andare available or several sub-state areas.

Wages or occupations in the state o Utah or incertain sub-state areas, can be viewed using thisdata tool. It contains the inexperienced wage, orthe average o the bottom third o the wages, inthe distribution; the average wage o all workerswithin each occupation; the median, or center

o the distribution; and the range o wages paidto the middle 50 percent o the workers in eachoccupation.

This inormation allows job seekers to gaugewhether the advertised pay rates are withinthe market range, to negotiate pay, and toinfuence the pursuit o one possible career overanother because o better economic prospects.It also allows businesses to measure whetherthey should adjust what they oer or eachoccupation they employ depending on theirbusiness strategy.

For more inormation on Utah or nationaloccupational wages and how wage data aregathered, visit:

http://stats.bls.gov/oes/current/oessrcst.htm

http://stats.bls.gov/oes/oes_emp.htm

One o the mostimportant considerationsto make when recruitingor a new job oraccepting a new job isthe pay rate associatedwith that job.

Findwages listed or jobsby keyword or title in the OccupationalExplorer at jobs.utah.gov:

http://jobs.utah.gov/jsp/wi/utalmis/gotoOccino.do

View the wage data for individual jobsposted at http://jobs.utah.gov.

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for your information | by nate talley, economist

The release o the 2010 occupa-tional employment estimates or

the nation, state o Utah, andUtahs metropolitan statistical areas(MSAs), presents a resh opportunityor analyzing our states occupationalcomposition. An interesting occupa-tional statistic that is worthy o evalu-ation is the location quotient. A loca-tion quotient is the ratio o one areasemployment concentration to theconcentration o employment in a giv-en reerence area. This article considersUtahs state and area occupational em-ployment with respect to the national

employment mix.

In the analysis below, a location quo-tient larger than one refects a greaterthan average occupational presence,whereas a location quotient o less thanone indicates the occupation is less rep-resented in an area than it is nationally.

As can be seen in the accompanyingtables, some o Utahs most represent-

ed occupations are above the $21.35national average wage and $16.27national median wage or all occupa-tions. High location quotients are gen-erally driven by clusters o like busi-ness activities that require many o thesame occupation, and may also be re-fected in an areas industrial make-up.For example, the Salt Lake City MSAhas a relatively large healthcare, andproessional, technical and scienticinfuence, thus spawning occupationslike medical appliance technicians and

biomedical engineers. Manuacturingis a predominant industry in northernUtah, demanding employment in oc-cupations such as aircrat mechanics,electrical equipment repairers, andood batchmakers. While constructionprojects in St. George are not near whatthey used to be, lingering employment

in construction occupations such asmasons, drywall installers and bench

carpenters contribute to the high oc-cupational location quotients in thearea. Meanwhile, two o the Provo-Orem MSAs top ve occupations stemrom strong post-secondary educationemployment in the region.

Occupations in Utah with some o thelowest location quotients are music di-rectors and meat cutters and trimmersIt is likely that employment opportu-nities exist in occupations with highlocation quotients; however, location

quotients do not take into account thesupply o labor. Consequently, an oc-cupation could witness large employ-ment numbers in a given geography,but i qualied jobseekers outweighoccupational demand, then opportu-nities in the eld could be ewer thanexpected.

Whats your LOCATION Quotient?

Utahs Greatest Occupational Location Quotients, by Area, 2010

STaTEWIDE

Occuptio EmplometLoctioQuotiet Me Wge Medi Wge

Resertio d Trsporttio Ticket agets

d Trel Clerks 5,090 4.642 $13.12 $12.22

Forest d Cosertio Techicis 1,290 4.436 $15.67 $13.46

Tx Exmiers d Collectors, d Reeue

agets 2,240 3.624 $21.98 $21.14

Multiple Mchie Tool Setters, Metl d

Plstic 2,040 3.256 $14.70 $14.00

Telemrketers 7,220 2.768 $11.81 $11.20

SaLT LaKE CITy METROPOLITan STaTISTICaL aREa

Occuptio Emplomet

Loctio

Quotiet Me Wge Medi Wge

Medicl applice Techicis 640 10.305 $15.80 $15.68

Resertio d Trsporttio Ticket agets

d Trel Clerks 4,970 8.797 $13.12 $12.22

Biomedicl Egieers 380 5.349 $35.30 $34.81

Multiple Mchie Tool Setters, Metl d

Plstic 1,210 3.738 $15.04 $14.09

Occuptiol Helth d Sfet Techicis 150 3.217 $22.87 $22.38



Utahs Greatest Occupational Location Quotients Cont.

PROvO-OREM METROPOLITan STaTISTICaL aREa

Occuptio Emplomet

Loctio


Tile d Mrble Setters 300 7.172 $23.34 $23.06

Residetil adisors 460 5.271 $12.61 $10.60

Lw Techers, Postsecodr 100 4.983

$127,170

(aul)

$112,050

(aul)

Computer Sciece Techers, Postsecodr 170 3.938

$87,590

(aul)

$85,530

(aul)

Helpers--Msos, d Tile d Mrble Setters 160 3.933 $16.46 $16.71

OGDEn-CLEaRFIELD METROPOLITan STaTISTICaL aREa

Occuptio Emplomet

Loctio


audio-visul d Multimedi Collectios

Specilists 100 8.587 $16.82 $15.49

Logisticis 980 6.277 $34.55 $34.19

aircrft Mechics d Serice Techicis 970 5.488 $25.47 $25.79

Electricl d Electroics Repirers,

Commercil Equipmet 550 5.470 $27.11 $27.02

Plsterers d Stucco Msos 210 5.329 $13.42 $12.99

LOGan METROPOLITan STaTISTICaL aREa

Occuptio Emplomet

Loctio


Food Btchmkers 340 9.401 $13.46 $13.78

Electricl d Electroic Equipmet

assemblers 490 7.239 $14.42 $11.89

Pckgig d Fillig Mchie Opertors d

Teders 920 7.140 $14.18 $14.36

Helpers--Crpeters 120 6.573 $10.26 $9.52

Drwll d Ceilig Tile Istllers 150 4.894 $16.73 $17.02

ST. GEORGE METROPOLITan STaTISTICaL aREa

Occuptio Emplomet

Loctio


Plsterers d Stucco Msos 140 14.563 $15.01 $15.39

Brickmsos d Blockmsos 110 4.366 $24.18 $26.48

Socil d Hum Serice assistts 530 4.188 $10.61 $10.46

Drwll d Ceilig Tile Istllers 110 3.653 $14.74 $13.70

Cbietmkers d Bech Crpeters 110 3.628 $13.66 $13.05

Note: Statewide location quotients are for occupations with a minimum employment of 1,000 and publishable wage data. MSA locationquotients are for occupations with a minimum employment of 100 and publishable wage data.



what's happening |by john mathews, economist

As Utah starts to pull out o the

recession, the thoughts o howthe economy was constrained

by lack o demand causing layos,no hiring, and curtailed work hourscontinue to play out. Right alongwith this is the concept that wagesin Utah had to drop because o therecession. Sounds logical. Whathappened was contrary to commonthought. Average wages in the statedid increase each year all the waythrough the 2000s. Thats not to saywe didnt have a recession. We did.

At the business cycle peak in 2007employment in Utah was 1,250,000.In 2010, well ater the ocialbottoming o the recession occurredin June o 2009, job counts droppedto 1,180,000. Thats evidence o thedownturn. Employment declined butaverage wages increased.

Average Wages Increased Duringthe BoomAs demand or goods and servicessurged during mid-decade, the call

or more workers was not met by themarket. With a shortage o workers,employers were scrambling to recruit,and their most potent tool was toincrease wage oers to make their jobopenings more attractive than thenext employer. Wage pressures wererealized as the average wages in thestate rose to 3.5 percent during 2004and 2005. As the situation continuedto heat up, average wages spiked at5.4 percent in 2006 and 5.5 percent in2007right at the peak o the boom.

As the market crumbled in 2008,

demand disappeared, and workershortages disappeared. Employersadjusted their workorces to holdon to their most important andproductive sta. They let the newlyhired and marginal workers goCompetition among businesses orworkers ell o. You would think thatpressure on wages would evaporate.Even in the ace o decliningrevenues, increased unemployment,declining employment, and payrolldollars, the average wage in the

state increased. Wages increased 2.6percent in 2008 (about hal o the 5.5percent rom the boom year o 2007)and 1.6 percent in 2009. Since theUtah economy is starting to see somelight, the wage change between 2009and 2010 increased to 2.6 percent. Aswe continue to pull out o the bottomo the business cycle, wages willcontinue to show modest increases.

UtahAverage

MonthlyWage

PercentChange

PriorYear

2004 2,641 3.5

2005 2,736 3.6

2006 2,883 5.4

2007 3,043 5.5

2008 3,121 2.6

2009 3,171 1.6

2010 3,263 2.9

Wages Go Down in a Recession

Contrary to common

thought, wages in the

state have increased each

year of the last decade.

If You Thought

ThinkAgain



Wage Changes in Industries inthe NewsConsruconThis industry tookthe biggest hit to employmentduring the recession, dropping romthe peak o 103,500 in 2007 to 65,250in 2010. It lost more than a third o itspeak employment. Wages, however,were increasing but at decreased raterom 4.5 percent in 2008 to 3.9percent in 2009 and then 2.9 percentin 2010. Construction tightened up,and many jobs were lost, but averagepay increased. The companies and

their employees that were able tohang on, actually made more moneyeach year.

MnucurngThis industry lost13 percent o its employment between2007 and 2010. The industry main-tained wage increases o 5.6 percent in2007 and 2008. Wage increases slippedto 2.4 percent in 2009 and buoyed upto 3.7 percent in 2010 as the industryelt its rst positive movement out othe downturn.

tr (wholsl n Rl)During the boom, even the largetrade sector, where there are manyunskilled and part-time workers,had average wage increases o over6.0 percent during 2007 and 2008.Spending ell precipitously as therecession settled in and wagesactually ell, but by less than 1.0percent in 2008 and 2009. Very ewindustries experienced a decline inwages during the recession.

Hlhcr n Socl asssnc

Some think this stalwart o employ-ment is recession-proo. This is some-what the case as employment hascontinued to grow during the thickand thins o economic cycles. Wagepressures were strong in mid-decadeas the average wage increased by 5.8percent in 2005. Ater that, however,average wage percent changes werehal o the peak with a 2.7 percentrise in both 2007 and 2008. In 2009the industry average wage rose by4.1 percent but last year (2010) wage

increases slipped to a -0.3 percentchange. The increasing demand orservices and escalation o costs maybe maniested by increasing wages orthis industry.

on industries and average wages, go to our

web site and click on the Utah IndustryEmployment and Wages section: http://jobs.

utah.gov/jsp/wi/utalmis/gotoIndustry.do

As we continue to pull out of the bottom

of the business cycle, wages will continue to

show modest increases.

For more information
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occupations | by linda marling church, research analyst

Other than a pre-surgery consul-

tation with an anesthesiologist,the only thing most patients

remember post-surgery is the phraseclose your eyes and count backwardsrom one hundred. One hundred,ninety-nine, ninety-eight.zzzzzz.The next thing you know, youre be-ing awakened by a nurse whose job itis to rouse you out o the deep sleepyouve been experiencing. The anes-thesia given usually produces a drug-induced amnesia, and surgery, or themost part, is made bearable.

Anesthesiologists are medical doctorswho administer anesthetics duringsurgery or other medical procedures.Anesthesia (topical, local, regional orgeneral) produces a loss o sensation,with or without loss o consciousness.Anesthesiologists examine a patientto determine the type o anesthesianeeded and monitor the patientsvital unctions during surgery. Theypartner with other physicians todetermine the patients conditionbeore, during, and ater the medicalprocedure. In other words, withoutthe anesthesiologist, the Hollywoodscene o taking a swig o whiskeyand biting down on a bullet in orderto bear the pain o surgery might bereality, not just antasy.

Anesthesiologists may administer

anesthesia directly or as part o ananesthesia team consisting o nurseanesthetists or anesthesiologists assis-tants. A nurse anesthetist , also calledCertied Registered Nurse Anesthetist(CRNA), is a nurse who is trained inthe administration o anesthesia aterundergoing special training, usually23 years ater college, and who gen-erally works under the supervision oa physician.

To become an anesthesiologist, a

bachelors degree rom an accred-ited our-year college or universitymust be earned, ollowed by a medi-cal degree. Ater graduating medi-cal school, a doctor will apply or aour-year residency with the optiono urther sub-specialization througha ellowship o one to three years.Ater graduating rom the residencyprogram, board certication can beachieved by successully completinga complex written and oral examina-tion process.

Many anesthesiologists work long, ir-regular hours. Acceptance to medicalschool is highly competitive and theeleven plus years it takes to be certi-ed in the medical eld is the mostdemanding o any occupation. Like

Anesthesiologists:Conquering Pain

Anesthesiologists

are part of

complicated,

and often, life-

threateningmedical

and surgical

procedures.



most health proessionals, anesthe-

siologists are part o complicated,and oten, lie-threatening medicaland surgical procedures. They are re-sponsible or cardiac and pulmonaryresuscitation, advanced lie support,and stabilizing and preparing pa-tients or emergency surgery.

The next time you put your health-care in the hands o an anesthesiolo-gist, be thankul that the eld has ad-vanced past nitrous oxide (laughinggas) and ether, or better yet, a swig o

whiskey and a leather strap clampedbetween your teeth.

Resources:

Bls.gov

American Society ofAnesthesiologists

American Board ofAnesthesiology

Association of AmericanMedical Colleges

http://jobs.utah.gov/jsp/wi/utalmis/gotoOccinfo.do

Mshealthcarecareers.com

UtahAnesthesiologist Wages

Median Hourly $56.26Mean Hourly $71.61

Mean Annual $148,900

Utah Certifed RegisteredNurse Anesthetist Wages

Median Hourly $28.41Mean Hourly $29.10

Mean Annual $60,530

May, 2010 data, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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ndustry highlight |by mark knold, chief economist

ManufacturingI

some sage were to come andprophesize that in 2016 the econ-omy would all into a recession,

and then ask me what industry Ibelieve this would impact the most,my answer would be manuacturing.Why? History shows that manuac-turing always loses jobs during a

recession.

Roughly 17,000 manuacturing jobsdownsized in Utah rom mid-2007to mid-2010. Thats not much o asurprise considering the severity othe Great Recession. But whats inter-esting is the industrys perormancesince mid-2010. Manuacturing joblosses have not only stopped, but arenow starting to rebound.

A 500-job increase isnt much to crow

about, but otentimes what happensis manuacturing alls during a re-cession, then remains at the level towhich it ell, until the next recessioncomes along and it alls some more.But there is some manuacturing jobrebound going on, and it may be at-tributable to two possibilities (prob-ably a combination o both).

The rst is how aggressively manuac-turers responded to the recession andthe amount o job cuts that ensued.There is speculation that rms actu-

ally overcut jobs. Thereore, even theslightest uptick in business shouldprompt some new hiring. This mightnot be applicable across all industries,but it seems to be pertinent in themanuacturing arena.

The second possibility is the lowvalue o the U.S. dollar in relation toother world currencies. The low dol-

lar makes the price o U.S. goods moreaordable to overseas buyers. For ex-ample, its cheaper or an outside buy-er to purchase an industrial machinemade in the U.S. than one made in Eu-rope due to currency exchange rates.

Nationally, manuacturing jobs areseeing a rebound or this very reasonIt is this burst in exports that is one othe bright spots within the economywhich is helping to get the economyjump started once again.

HowdoesUtah's

manufacturingindustry

fareduringarecession?


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Beaver 7.7 %Box Elder 8.9 %Cache 5.2 %Carbon 7.2 %Daggett 6.2 %

Davis 6.6 %Duchesne 6.0 %Emery 7.4 %Gareld 10.8 %

Grand 10.6 %

Iron 8.7 % Juab 10.5 %Kane 8.0 %Millard 5.4 %Morgan 6.7 %

Piute 6.9 %Rich 5.8 %Salt Lake 6.9 %San Juan 12.3 %Sanpete 8.9 %

Sevier 7.8 %Summit 6.4 %Tooele 7.4 %Uintah 5.5 %Utah 7.2 %

Wasatch 8.2 %Washington 9.3 %Wayne 9.9 %Weber 8.1 %

April 2011Seasonally Adjusted

Unemployment Rates

May 2011Unemployment Rates

Changes From LastYear

Utah Unemployment Rate 7.3 % Down 0.5 points

U.S. Unemployment Rate 9.1 % Down 0.5 points

Utah Nonarm Jobs (000s) 1,200.4 Up 1.5 %

U.S. Nonarm Jobs (000s) 131,753.0 Up 0.7 %

April 2011 Consumer PriceIndex RatesU.S. Consumer Price Index 224.9 Up 3.2%

U.S. Producer Price Index 192.9 Up 7.3%

Source: Utah Department of Workforce Services

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