{"id":4864,"date":"2012-02-15T16:02:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/?p=4864"},"modified":"2012-02-15T16:02:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T23:02:24","slug":"new-report-predicts-the-best-jobs-in-idaho-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/2012\/02\/15\/new-report-predicts-the-best-jobs-in-idaho-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"New Report Predicts the Best Jobs in Idaho for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4865\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"EMSI says there are currently more than 11,000 nurse jobs in Idaho \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/RegisteredNurse_JustinSullivan_Getty.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4865\" title=\"Proposed California Budget Cuts Threaten Adult Day Health Care\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/RegisteredNurse_JustinSullivan_Getty-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/RegisteredNurse_JustinSullivan_Getty-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/RegisteredNurse_JustinSullivan_Getty-620x408.jpg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/files\/2012\/02\/RegisteredNurse_JustinSullivan_Getty-220x144.jpg 220w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Justin Sullivan \/ Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">EMSI says there are currently more than 11,000 nurse jobs in Idaho<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A Moscow, Idaho based economic modeling company has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economicmodeling.com\/2012\/02\/14\/top-jobs-in-idaho-for-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">released its predictions<\/a> for the Gem State&#8217;s top jobs in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. or EMSI says registered nurses, nuclear engineers and electrical power-line installers and repairers are the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economicmodeling.com\/2012\/02\/14\/top-jobs-in-idaho-for-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">three best jobs<\/a> to seek this year.\u00a0 EMSI says those three professions have seen some of the best pay and growth over the last five years. <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Jobs in Idaho have declined 5% since 2007, dropping from over 922,000 to an estimated 875,000 \u2014 a loss of about 48,000 jobs. For a state with a relatively low population, this is a lot, so finding the best jobs might be something of a challenge.&#8221; &#8211; EMSI<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Here are some of the key points from EMSI:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most of the highest-paying jobs haven\u2019t actually grown that much, and some have actually declined. Ten of the 16 jobs [earning more than $40 an hour] inched up by single digits, while judges dropped -5%, engineering managers -11%, and computer hardware engineers -22%.<\/li>\n<li>In the category of people earning at least $25 an hour, electrical power-line installers and repairers grew the most, 17% since 2007.\u00a0 Registered nurses grew by 16%, added over 1,500 jobs.<\/li>\n<li>The worst plunges in regional specialization jobs are sawing machine setters\/operators\/tenders, wood (-32%, down almost 500), logging equipment operators (-27%, down 300), mechanical engineering technicians (-24%, down 180), and electrical engineers (-23%, down 465).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can read more about EMSI&#8217;s study at its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economicmodeling.com\/2012\/02\/14\/top-jobs-in-idaho-for-2012\/\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Moscow, Idaho based economic modeling company has released its predictions for the Gem State&#8217;s top jobs in 2012. Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. or EMSI says registered nurses, nuclear engineers and electrical power-line installers and repairers are the three best jobs to seek this year.\u00a0 EMSI says those three professions have seen some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":4865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[46,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4869,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4864\/revisions\/4869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/idaho\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}