graduate degrees or technical skills. It has 233 members from academic institutions across the world.
Newfields was looking for a Missoula-based engineer earlier this year, with a salary range of $55,000 to $80,000 per year. The company has created two jobs in the area and is requesting a $15,000 reimbursement from the Big Sky Economic Development Trust Fund and its job creation award.
pany's behalf for 27 new employments at the time.
UNAVCO also announced intentions to create a Missoula office in September, with the goal of collaborating with the Montana University System. Missoula County had given MEP permission to submit a job-creation grant on the com-
Missoula's experienced workforce, according to organization president Rebecca Bendick, makes it a perfect location for the company to flourish. The organization now employs roughly 90 employees, the majority of whom have
UNAVCO, in collaboration with other federal agencies and business partners, manages the national Earth Science geodetic factory, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation and NASA.
Bendick remarked last year that "Missoula has a ready and competent technically skilled workforce here that we'd want to recruit and incorporate into our geodetic staff." "Missoula also provides an amazing quality of life and, frankly, affordability to my scientific and technical team that Boulder does not."
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