Whether or not you had been a part of a year-end job power discount or desire a change in work within the new 12 months, you is perhaps on the lookout for a job and there are some occupations by which employment is projected to develop.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics has recognized the 20 fastest-growing occupations in america over a decade in its Occupational Outlook Handbook. These are those with the best projected p.c change of employment between 2021 and 2031. In some circumstances, Erie does replicate these developments, needing extra nurse practitioners and cooks. However in different occupations, equivalent to ushers, native officers say it is already a preferred job and due to this fact with out numerous turnover.
Here’s a have a look at a number of the occupations projected to develop:
1. Nurse practitioners
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics expects nurse practitioners to have a 46% progress charge between 2021 and 2031.
Spokespeople for Saint Vincent Hospital and for UPMC stated there are jobs for nurse practitioners within the Erie space, particularly with the variety of child boomers needing well being care over the subsequent decade.
“Now we have numerous openings for nurse practitioners and have added a small quantity of them,” in keeping with an announcement despatched by Saint Vincent spokeswoman Monica Lewis.
Nonetheless, the assertion stated the rise in nurse practitioners is extra in states the place nurse practitioners have full observe authority, and that does not embrace Pennsylvania.
Full observe authority is the place nurse practitioners can consider and diagnose sufferers, interpret exams and provoke remedies, together with prescribing medicines, beneath their nursing board license, slightly than solely beneath a doctor license or collaborative settlement, the Saint Vincent assertion stated.
“If there was full observe authority (in Pennsylvania), we’d completely add much more (nurse practitioners),” the assertion stated. Laws to vary full observe authority hasn’t made it by means of the Pennsylvania Basic Meeting.
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All of UPMC, which incorporates Erie’s Hamot hospital, employs about 1,200 nurse practitioners throughout main care and in specialty care, stated Ben Reynolds, chief superior observe officer for UPMC. Reynolds, who is predicated in Pittsburgh, known as Erie “a chief location for the expansion of nurse practitioner observe.”
He stated UPMC routinely has 100 to 200 open positions that could possibly be crammed by a nurse practitioner or a doctor assistant.
“The job market inside UPMC displays what the (US Bureau of Labor) statistics say,” Reynolds stated.
He stated UPMC has acquired an satisfactory variety of functions for the open positions, though which may fluctuate, notably in rural areas.
“Proper now I imagine we’ve had sufficient nurse practitioners to satisfy our wants,” he stated.
Reynolds additionally stated that nurse practitioner compensation, in keeping with skilled group information, has been going up.
“The market is saying they’re worthwhile and compensation charges are going as much as replicate that worth,” he stated.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics listed the 2021 median pay for nurse practitioners as $120,680 per 12 months.
2. Wind turbine service technicians
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics expects this occupation to develop 44%, with 4,900 new jobs by 2031. Wind turbine technicians set up, keep and restore wind generators. Their median pay in 2021 was $56,260 per 12 months, in keeping with the bureau.

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In 2022, large windmill blades on the bottom close to the Interstate 90 and Bayfront Connector interchange in Harborcreek Township had been sparking curiosity. The blades, about 280 toes in size, had been shipped to Erie’s port and had been then being saved in Harborcreek till they could possibly be put in in New York state.
In the meantime, a number of states had been the opportunity of being the primary to place wind generators alongside their shores within the Nice Lakes. However a number of officers stated there was nothing within the works for the Pennsylvania waters of Lake Erie.
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3. Ushers, foyer attendants and ticket-takers
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics initiatives a 41% enhance on this occupation.
Erie Occasions hires what it calls visitor companies staff yearly and has about 80 ushers/ticket takers who work occasions on the Warner Theatre, Erie Insurance coverage Enviornment and Bayfront Conference Heart, stated Gus Pine, the Conference Heart’s basic supervisor who will develop into Erie Occasions’ government director on Jan. 30. The Erie SeaWolves usually have 30 to 40, by no means greater than 45, at UPMC Park, stated Greg Gania, the baseball workforce’s assistant basic supervisor of communications.
Gania stated the SeaWolves did develop the occupation a bit of over the previous couple years due to additions to the hospitality choices on the baseball park.

Each males stated there’s little turnover and so they haven’t got hassle getting the few usher and ticket taker openings crammed.
“If we have to discover ushers, we will discover them in a heartbeat,” Gania stated.
Pine agreed there’s by no means a scarcity and Erie Occasions has “all the time been capable of finding candidates who take pleasure in folks and reside occasions.”
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The job is not excessive affect and customarily requires staff to work together with folks, gathering tickets and serving to patrons discover seats or amenities equivalent to restrooms. Lots of the staff are retired from different jobs and needed a bit of work or are employed and needed a “cool second job,” Gania stated.
“Most people are moonlighting since we primarily want them on evenings and weekends,” Pine stated.
He stated Erie Occasions pays $8 an hour, rising to $12 to $14 per hour for supervisors.
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics listed the 2021 median pay for ushers, foyer attendants and ticket takers as $24,440 per 12 months.
4. Movement image projectionists
Employment on this occupation stood at simply 2,000 complete in 2021 however was anticipated to extend by 800 new jobs over the last decade, in keeping with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That places its progress charge at 40%, or a lot quicker than common.
Movement image projectionist statistics weren’t out there particularly for Pennsylvania. Within the Erie area, venues that usually present films embrace Tinseltown, Erie Film Home and Motion pictures at Meadville plus Sundown Drive In.
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The median annual wage for a movement image projectionist was $29,350 in Could 2021, in keeping with the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. The job requires no formal instructional credential and includes organising and working movement image projection and associated sound copy tools, in keeping with the bureau.
5. Cooks, restaurant
The US Bureau of Labor Statistics anticipates a 37% enhance in cooks for eating places by 2031.
Do a easy on-line seek for “cook dinner jobs” in Erie and you will find an extended checklist of institutions together with nursing properties, faculties and eating places.

Pine, the supervisor on the Bayfront Conference Heart, guesses that a number of the progress could possibly be as a consequence of an try and return to regular after the coronavirus pandemic, which shut down eating amenities and compelled folks out of the meals service business. Erie Occasions was promoting for a cook dinner for the Conference Heart on the finish of 2022.
“We have discovered, and heard from others, that hiring within the service business for front- and back-of-house workers has been extraordinarily aggressive,” Pine stated. “To fight this challenge, we have moved to hiring full-time workers versus part-time workers when potential. This has made us extra aggressive in a really aggressive market however staffing will probably stay a problem into 2023. The businesses that shall be profitable are going to be those who put a premium on caring for their line-level workers members.”
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Along with established eating places bouncing again from the pandemic, the Erie space has seen many new eating places open previously couple years, resulting in extra jobs for cooks.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics listed the 2021 median pay for cooks, restaurant at $30,010.
Occupations 6-20
Rounding out the highest 20 quickest rising occupations between 2021 and 2031, in keeping with the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, are:
6. Knowledge scientists
7. Athletes and sports activities rivals
8. Data safety analysts
9. Statisticians
10. Umpires, referees and different sports activities officers
11. Net builders
12. Animal caretakers
13. Choreographers
14. Taxi drivers
15. Medical and well being companies managers
16. Logisticians
17. Doctor assistants
18. Photo voltaic photovoltaic installers
19. Animal trainers
20. Bodily therapist assistants
Learn extra about every at www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm.
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