{"id":2659,"date":"2010-08-06T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T15:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/valdosta-in-bottom-10-metro-areas-for-wages.html"},"modified":"2010-08-06T11:58:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-06T15:58:41","slug":"valdosta-in-bottom-10-metro-areas-for-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/valdosta-in-bottom-10-metro-areas-for-wages.html","title":{"rendered":"Valdosta in bottom 10 metro areas for wages"},"content":{"rendered":"Richard Florida writes about\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2010\/08\/the-geography-of-high-paying-jobs\/60918\/\">\nThe Geography of High-Paying Jobs<\/a>,\nincluding this map based on Bureau of Labor Staistics (BLS) data:\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2010\/08\/the-geography-of-high-paying-jobs\/60918\/\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\" width=\"516\" height=\"399\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.creativeclass.com\/creative_class\/_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/All_Classes_Wages1.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nThe Valdosta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) comes in the bottom 10\nnationwide.\nThat&#8217;s for overall average wages.\n<p>\nIt doesn&#8217;t look quite as bad for specific classes of jobs (creative, service,\nand working class),\nbut that&#8217;s mostly because there are almost no MSAs in the lowest\npay tier.\nHowever, for service jobs, Valdosta is not as good as Tallahassee,\nand makes it into the bottom 10:\n\n<!--more-->\n<blockquote>\nThese are lower-skill jobs in occupations like home health care aid, personal care aid, food preparation, retail sales, and office and clerical work. Even at the top end of the scale, they pay less than half of knowledge, professional, and creative work.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nWhat can be done to improve this situation?\nMaybe look at what the higher-paying MSAs have done.\nWith the exception of Houston, they are generally not based on polluting\nindustries.\nAnd even Houston has major medical facilities and NASA.\nHm, Valdosta has two hospitals and many doctors,\nplus a university in the top 10% by size and two other colleges,\nnot to mention a thriving theater community, reviving local agriculture, and of course\nit&#8217;s TitleTown, USA.\nWhat can be done with those assets?\n<p>\nOr we could add another smokestack industry, the biomass plant,\nto the existing PCA and Langdale facilities.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Florida writes about The Geography of High-Paying Jobs, including this map based on Bureau of Labor Staistics (BLS) data: The Valdosta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) comes in the bottom 10 nationwide. 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