Labor Market & Local Wage Information

Want to know what jobs are in demand or in decline? Want to make informed decisions when selecting a new career or negotiating a salary offer? Curious what the prevailing wage is for a particular occupation?

Labor Market Reports and Information

If you want details on occupations, industries, wages and the labor market, this is the site for you.

Washington Workforce Explorer
( provided by Washington State Labor Market & Economic Analysis (Employment Security Department)

Here are a few useful pages:

• Career Center
• Find Employers
• Occupation Explorer
• Industry Explorer
• Wages and Benefits Information
• Washington Labor Market
• King County Profile by our regional labor economist

Calculate Your Income Needs

What is your family's true cost of living? Depending on where you live, how many people are in your family and what ages they are, this cost varies greatly.

The Self-Sufficiency Calculator allows to calculate this cost. You can see how much you would have to earn to meet all your family's needs, based on the area in which you live and the makeup of your family.

The Calculator can help you budget, decide whether a job will pay enough, and find out about public benefits you may be eligible for. Click here to try the Calculator.

Local Publications

The Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County regularly publishes reports that illuminate the labor market of our area.

• Map Your Career Career pathways in five local industries.
• State of the Workforce 2008: What's New and What's Next for Seattle-King County
• Summer Employment: Key for Youth
  
• Job Outlook 2008
  
• State of the Workforce Update 2007 - Information Technology
  
• State of the Workforce Update 2006 - Aging Workforce
  

Another great resource for labor market and job search information is America’s Career InfoNet. It looks at general job market trends by state, provides links for locating local employers, and features an array of useful career tools.

As always, you are welcome to visit your local WorkSource office and gather additional wage data from proprietary software applications we have available on our computer desktops.