{"id":283,"date":"2018-09-17T19:53:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/whatcombusinessalliance\/?p=283"},"modified":"2018-09-17T19:58:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T19:58:51","slug":"whatcom-county-top-25-jobs-employers-skills-and-certifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/whatcombusinessalliance\/whatcom-county-top-25-jobs-employers-skills-and-certifications\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatcom County Top 25 Jobs, Employers, Skills and Certifications"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer 2018\u00a0 Employer Demand report from the Employment Security Department<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.esd.wa.gov\/labormarketinfo\/employer-demand<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Employment Rate is lowest in 11 years in Washington State! Here are some of the Top local employers, types of Jobs, hard skills and certifications in Whatcom County! (from https:\/\/esd.wa.gov\/labormarketinfo\/monthly-employment-report)<\/p>\n

Top 25 occupations<\/strong> advertised online Return to content
\nWhatcom County, June, 2018
\nSource: Employment Security Department\/WITS, Occupational Employment Statistics; The Conference Board, Help Wanted OnLine job announcements<\/p>\n

Rank, SOC Title, All job postings1, New job postings2, Average annual wages3, Median annual wages3
\n1 Registered Nurses, 176, 68, $67,597, $70,224
\n2 Retail Salespersons, 100, 48, $29,713 $22,918
\n3 Customer Service Representatives 71 41 $32,712 $28,650
\n4 Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 65 45 $48,795 $45,870
\n5 Janitors and Cleaners, Except Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 61 42 $29,363 $28,123
\n6 Maintenance and Repair Workers, General 59 42 $41,119 $36,128
\n7 First-Line Supervisors of Retail Sales Workers 57 21 $45,093 $44,518
\n8 Nursing Assistants 55 26 $27,083 $28,114
\n9 Social and Human Service Assistants 55 35 $30,840 $27,772
\n10 First-Line Supervisors of Food Preparation and Serving Workers 54 43 $35,317 $28,707
\n11 Combined Food Preparation and Serving Workers, Including Fast Food 53 42 $23,576 $22,541
\n12 First-Line Supervisors of Production and Operating Workers 52 30 $65,125 $57,129
\n13 Stock Clerks and Order Fillers 44 26 $31,845 $28,631
\n14 Laborers and Freight, Stock, and Material Movers, Hand 41 24 $30,557 $28,575
\n15 Medical Assistants 41 20 $37,001 $35,859
\n16 Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks 40 29 $42,547 $44,955
\n17 Cooks, Restaurant 39 35 $26,667 $27,915
\n18 Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive 38 20 $38,577 $36,098
\n19 Landscaping and Groundskeeping Workers 37 29 $30,181 $28,400
\n20\u00a0 Licensed Practical and Licensed Vocational Nurses 37 22 $42,495 $44,566
\n21 Helpers–Production Workers 36 10 $28,165 $27,943
\n22 Construction Laborers 36 33 $45,346 $44,650
\n23 Carpenters 36 28 $55,540 $56,072
\n24 First-Line Supervisors of Office and Administrative Support Workers 36 20 $52,746 $46,421
\n25 Maids and Housekeeping Cleaners 35 30 $25,106 $22,541
\n1 New job postings and jobs reposted from the previous month.<\/em>
\n2 Job postings that did not appear in the previous month.<\/em>
\n3 Wage estimates are for Workforce Development Areas to which this county belongs, and may differ from published OES wages.<\/em><\/p>\n

Top 25 employers<\/strong> from online ads
\nWhatcom County, April 2018 through July 2018
\nSource: Employment Security Department\/WITS; The Conference Board, Help Wanted OnLine job announcements<\/p>\n

Rank, Employer, Number, Prior year 1
\n1 PeaceHealth, 557, 349
\n2 Express Employment Professionals 162 153
\n3 Western Washington University 136 139
\n4 Whatcom Community College 66 4
\n5 State of Washington 57 21
\n6 CHS Inc. 54 53
\n7 WINCO FOODS 51 36
\n8 Manpower 50 94
\n9 Kelly Services 49 32
\n10 Avamere Health Services 48 40
\n11 Aramark Corporation 40 56
\n12 Target Corporation 40 1
\n13 KeyBank 33 20
\n14 Alcoa Inc. 30 6
\n15 Bellingham Technical College 29 42
\n16 Whole Foods 28 6
\n17 Whatcom County 27 39
\n18 BP Americas 27 37
\n19 City of Bellingham 26 33
\n20 BROOKDALE 26 13
\n21 Premier School Agendas 25 1
\n22 Onward Healthcare 24 7
\n23 NursesRx 24 7
\n24 Signature Hospice 24 15
\n25 American Mobile Healthcare 23 7
\n+Number of postings for same months in 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n

Top 25 hard skills<\/strong> from online ads
\nWhatcom County, April 2018 through July 2018
\nSource: Employment Security Department\/WITS; Wanted Analytics<\/p>\n

Rank, Hard skills, Number
\n1 Microsoft Office 604
\n2 Freight+ 201
\n3 Forklifts 178
\n4 Quality Assurance 150
\n5 Microsoft PowerPoint 135
\n6 Patient Electronic Medical Record 135
\n7 Preventive maintenance 114
\n8 Bilingual 107
\n9 Hand trucks 102
\n10 Pallet jacks 100
\n11 Pediatrics 100
\n12 Microsoft Internet Explorer 96
\n13 Geriatrics 93
\n14 Quality control 90
\n15 Food preparation 83
\n16 Internal audit 79
\n17 Technical support 77
\n18 Medical-Surgical Nursing 76
\n19 Instrumentation 73
\n20 English speaker 64
\n21 Mathematics 63
\n22 Behavioral health 58
\n23 Material Handling 56
\n24 Epic software 56
\n25 Accounts payable 52<\/p>\n

Top 25 certifications<\/strong> from online ads
\nWhatcom County, April 2018 through July 2018
\nSource: Employment Security Department\/WITS; Wanted Analytics<\/p>\n

Rank, Certification, Number
\n1 Driver’s License 850
\n2 Basic Life Support 344
\n3 Certified Registered Nurse 262
\n4 Licensed Practical Nurse 193
\n5 Advanced Cardiac Life Support 153
\n6 Continuing Education 139
\n7 Commercial Driver’s License 127
\n8 Certification in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation 125
\n9 Class A Commercial Drivers License 121
\n10 First Aid certification 95
\n11 HAZMAT 90
\n12 Certified Nursing Assistant 90
\n13 Food safety programs 84
\n14 Occupational Safety & Health Administration Certification 81
\n15 Transportation Worker Identification Credential 78
\n16 Petroleum Oriented Safety Training 69
\n17 Certified Medical Assistant 67
\n18 Accounting 66
\n19 Department of Social and Health Services 55
\n20 Medical-Surgical Nurse 54
\n21 Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System 51
\n22 Certified Public Accountant 49
\n23 Board Certified 44
\n24 National Certified Medical Assistant 41
\n25 National Healthcareer Association 40<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Summer 2018\u00a0 Employer Demand report from the Employment Security Department https:\/\/www.esd.wa.gov\/labormarketinfo\/employer-demand Employment Rate is lowest in 11 years in Washington State! Here are some of the Top local employers, types of Jobs, hard skills and certifications in Whatcom County! (from https:\/\/esd.wa.gov\/labormarketinfo\/monthly-employment-report) Top 25 occupations advertised online Return to content Whatcom County, June, 2018 Source: Employment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":155,"featured_media":284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[75,73,74,69],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wba-news","tag-data","tag-employment","tag-jobs","tag-whatcom-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/whatcombusinessalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/whatcombusinessalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/whatcombusinessalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/whatcombusinessalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/whatcombusinessalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/whatcombusinessalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/whatcombusinessalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/whatcombusinessalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/whatcombusinessalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/whatcombusinessalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.neoninspire.com\/whatcombusinessalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}