Smart Workforce Solutions

Trends

Understanding the overall economic and occupational climate will assist you in planning for your workforce needs. Information, such as industry trends, unemployment rates and the occupational outlooks, and commuting patterns provides guidance in preparing workforce recruiting plans and human resources programs that will create incentives for workers to stay and grow with your company.

Key Indicators/Dynamics

Local Employment Dynamics utilizes Quarterly Workforce Indicators to demonstrate total employment, net job flows, job creation, new hire activity, seperations, turnover, average monthly earnings, and average new hire earnings, as specific as the county level. More

Labor Availability

This resource is a psychographic survey that analyzes the behaviors and attitudes of employees in the region towards underemployment and communiting. Get the story that goes beyond just the unemployment rate and discover a new approach to thinking about Southwest Missouri’s workforce. More

Occupational Trends

You’re just a click away from the latest Missouri employment projections and wage data for hundreds of occupations in 22 categories cross linked to instructional programs. More

Salary/Wage Trends

What do specific occupations pay in my area? Are my employee’s wages competitive? Average monthly earnings and average earnings of new hires are available by business type/sector, age group, and specific geographies from the region. Wage and salary information from the Local Employment Dynamics (LED) resource is just a click away. More

Demographics

Demography provides a picture of several characteristics of the human population. Demographics provides information that is helpful to HR professionals, such as ages of the local population, education and income levels, housing statistics, etc. More

Community Economic Development Profiles

This on-line searchable economic development database that provides detailed information on buildings, sites and locations for businesses looking to expand. Over 5,000 communities and over 9,000 available properties throughout a 10 state area are represented, but specific links filtered to communities in Southwest Missouri are provided as well. More