Rochester Area Skill Needs Assessment and Business Climate Survey, September 2013

Rochester Area Skill Needs Assessment and Business Climate Survey 2

The figure below portrays the share of jobs in the Finger Lakes by “low,” “middle” and “high” skill.

Over a third of the jobs in the Finger Lakes area are middle-skills jobs.

Table 2: Jobs in the Finger Lakes area by skill level, select years

Number of Jobs (1000s)

Change in Jobs

2002

2012

2022 2001-2012 2012-2022

High-Skills

128 225

130 214

142 227

2%

9% 6%

Middle-Skills

-5%

Low-Skills

238

243

261

2%

7%

Source: CGR Calculations using EMSI data

EMSI’s occupational forecast over the next ten years indicates middle-skills jobs shrinking as a share of the total. EMSI does not forecast a rise in total employment, including the total number of middle-skills jobs. Based on EMSI’s wage data, a middle-skills job pays on average $43,000 a year. This is 167% of what an average low-skill job would pay and 58% of the average high-skill job. Middle-skills workers earn between $14,000 and $124,000 a year.

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