Our unemployment rate has been declining.

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Our unemployment rate has been declining.
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And employment has been increasing
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but at a slower pace in 2007.
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What we can tell you about the labor
force/population

• Age, sex, race
• Educational attainment
• Wage/income
• Migration
• Characteristics of (some of) the unemployed
• Commuting patterns

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Portland Job Vacancy Survey April 2007

• 19,325 job vacancies in the Portland area
  (Multnomah, Washington, and Clackamas counties)
  in April of this year.
• Almost one-third of job vacancies had been
  unfilled for two months or longer.
• The health care and manufacturing industries had
  the most job vacancies. Combined, these two
  industries represented one-third of all Portland
  area vacancies.
• Seventy percent of all health care industry
  vacancies require education beyond high school
  and 62 percent require a license or certificate.
  These higher-than-typical educational
  requirements add to the difficulty in filling
  this industrys vacancies.
• Of the vacancies with wage information,
  one-in-four paid a wage of at least 20 an hour,
  while one-in-four paid less than 10 an hour.

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Portland Job Vacancies by IndustryApril 2007
Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties
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Retirements are looming
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Consequently, well see a large number of
replacement openings over the next 10 years.
New workers will be needed across almost all
industries, even those that are growing slowly,
or even declining.
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Turning the focus to occupations, we see growth
across all broad groups.
Replacement openings make up 60 of all
openings Health care is the only major
occupational group where growth openings exceed
replacement openings