Breakdown of Metrics

JOBS:

The number of occupational jobs within a region for a given year.

RESIDENT WORKERS: Workers who live and work in the same region.

NET COMMUTERS:

A measure of workers who live in one region but work in another (negative means workers are commuting out of the region to work).

PROJECTED GROWTH:

The number of jobs expected above or below the 2022 job count.

HIRES:

The amount of people hired within that occupation in 2022.

SEPARATIONS:

The amount of people that stopped working in that occupation in 2022.

Lenawee County Key Highlights

TURNOVER RATE:

The ratio of separations to total jobs.

AVG. ANNUAL OPENING:

The total number of openings from 2017-2022 divided by the number of years within that period.

AGE CATEGORIES:

The number of workers within an occupation that fall into that age bracket.

EARNINGS CATEGORIES: Hourly earnings by education.

OCCUPATION SCORE:

The amount that occupation fulfills the criteria created by weightings.

RANK:

A simpler way of expressing occupation score.

 Manager Occupations account for seven of the Top 25 jobs, representing 895 jobs in 2022, and a 26% share of the total within the Top 25. In addition, 28% of current job holders are age 55 and above. These attributes, along with very high median wages and a bachelor’s degree education requirement (except for EducationAdministrators), make them an excellent option for enterprising individuals. Job growth has also been excellent, growing by 251 in the past five years, and projected to grow by 99 more in the next five years.

 Business & Finance Operations Occupations provide excellent opportunities for an upcoming Lenawee professional. These jobs appear in the Top 25 six times and account for 549 jobs, making up 16% of Top 25 jobs in the area. Historical growth was also strong: jobs have grown by 132 since 2017 and are projected to grow by 50 more in the next five years.

 Healthcare Practitioners, Support and Technical Occupations provide students a variety of careers that require degrees ranging from associate degrees to doctoral or professional degrees. Health related jobs appear in the Top 25 five times and account for 701 jobs, a 13% share of the total jobs in the Top 25. These jobs also have very high median wages and are projected to grow by 132 jobs by 2027.