Workforce Summary
- Regional workforce in excess of 400,000
- A motivated and productive workforce, including skilled labor from area military bases
- Workers’ compensation and unemployment insurance rates among the lowest in the nation
- Regional wages are below the national and state averages
- Moderate unemployment levels
- Right-to-work state
- Training resources second to none.
- Free job-specific worker training for new and expanding industry
- America's best community college-based vocational training program
- On-site TransPark Center for employee training
