Workforce Summary
Right-to-work state - Regional workforce in excess of 400,000 including:
- 20,000 service members exiting the Armed Forces each year
- Many with skills and training specific to aerospace and logistics
- Workers' compensation and unemployment insurance rates among the lowest in the nation
- Regional wages are below the national and state averages
- Job-specific worker training for new and expanding industry
- Community college-based vocational training programs
- On-site Composite Center for employee training
