Demand Details

Details for Selected Occupation :

Area Name :

Washington State

Occupation Title :

Data Entry Keyers

Occupational Group :

Office and Administrative Support Occupations

Description :

Operate data entry device, such as keyboard or photo composing perforator. Duties may include verifying data and preparing materials for printing. Exclude "Word Processors and Typists" (43-9022).

Demand Designation :

Demand

Demand Rank :

Estimated Employment :

3,353

Projected Employment :

3,567

Annual
Growth Rate :

3.14%

Annual Openings :

180

Short-Term Trend:

growth

Long-Term Trend :

growth

Annual Wage :

$30,544.00

UI Ratio :

5.22%

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Data Source : WA State Employment Security Dept. : Labor Market Economic Analysis
Website : Learn About an Occupation

Wage Data : is for March 2011
Employment Data (including Growth Rates and Estimated and Projected Employment: is for 2nd Qrtr. 2010 - 2nd Qrtr. 2012 (published May 2011)
Demand Data : published in May 2011.

The UI Ratio is the number of unemployment insurance claims divided by estimated employment for second quarter 2010.
A lower number indicates that fewer UI Claims were made for the given occupation and a blank ratio -- indicated by just a '%' sign -- shows that no UI Claims were made for the occupation.

Demand Designations : are relative to a given area. So, an occupation deemed to be 'Not In Demand' statewide could still be 'In Demand' within a sub-state area, such as, Spokane.

For comparison purposes the average Wages and Growth Rates by Area within Washington are as follow:

Area Name	Mean Annual Wage	Mean Hourly Wage	Average Short-term Growth Rate
Washington State	$49,514	$23.80	1.49%
Olympic Consortium	$45,566	$21.91	0.86%
Pacific Mountain	$43,760	$21.04	1.22%
Northwest	$41,861	$20.12	1.40%
Snohomish County	$50,213	$24.14	1.84%
Seattle-King County	$56,287	$27.06	1.67%
Pierce County	$46,161	$22.19	1.37%
SW Washington	$45,103	$21.69	1.57%
North Central Washington	$38,932	$18.71	1.03%
South Central	$39,008	$18.76	0.88%
Eastern Washington	$42,691	$20.53	0.93%
Benton-Franklin	$48,214	$23.18	1.18%
Spokane	$42,594	$20.48	1.66%

Further information regarding the data, including a description of the methodology used to construct the Demand-Decline rankings for individual occupations, can be found in the 'About the Data' section of this website.

The data used by EconQuery are derived from public sources.

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