Labor Market Studies

Components of Study
Workforce Quality
Workforce Cost
Workforce Availability
Workforce Profile
Workforce Markets
Stakeholders For Workforce Excellence

As Economic Development Organizations, are you interested in:

• Retaining existing businesses?
• Promoting expansion of existing businesses?
• Attracting new businesses to the area?
• Helping new businesses start-up locally?
• Identifying skill gaps for education/training that is responsive to businesses needs?

As Employers and Businesses, are you interested in:

• Conducting strategic workforce assessments of your existing facilities for expansion or consolidation?
• Assessing workforce and other related retail or service markets comparing your area with other market areas prior to making an investment decision?
• Assessing a target site location for expansion relating to workforce quality, skill availability, and workforce costs?

Labor or Workforce Market Information from Growth Services provides a foundation of strategic importance on the Quality, Availability and Cost of your community or county Area Labor Market. It gives you a competitive advantage by:

• Presenting information on the competitive realities of the workforce, based on Quality, Availability and Cost.
• Providing Businesses the Labor Information necessary to make Informed Decisions for their current and future Expansion and Location Needs.
• Providing communities the information necessary to develop strategies for improving the Quality and Availability of the Workforce based on the perceptions of Employers (Demand Side) and Workers (Supply Side).