Electrical trade stats

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Jmaynard

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Hi I was wondering if anyone knows where I might find statistics on how much the electrical trade has grown in the past 30 years. I have heard it is over 2000% but I would like to know a hard number. Thanks, Justin:confused:
 
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If your still trust the government try U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics;

I'll agree about the selective employment being practiced right now, by the truth is
the USA has near zero population growth. Company's are way more in-tune with just in time requirements, running streamlined, you name it.

I beleive that growth is based on two baby's born for every death, not other factors such as immiagration.
This one fact will work back into the favor of an employee side of things, just in a few years.

The year's around 57' was the peak of the birth population boom, consider it a postive bell curve, a lot of us are way past that peak - in Life. We are being replaced slowly but the links are harder to fine behind our generation.

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The problem is that many vocational trades are not even exposed, stressed, or even taught. Well let me take that back a bit, many urban areas have known and have tried to address this matter with various results.

Add: they are dieing off and retiring on the front side of that bell curve right now.
 
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G._S._Ohm said:
Watch out for people who say that there is a 'shortage' of [electricians, engineers, sales people, you-name-it]. This line of BS is eternal.
They want a large supply so they can pick and choose and pay low salaries.
There is no downside to this strategy from the buyer's point of view.

Recommended reading:
http://www.amazon.com/unSpun-Finding-Facts-World-Disinformation/dp/1400065666
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I must value my plasma TV highly because so far I haven't tossed a boot at it when the TV news bubble-head talks about that baloney!

Also, I know of many guys taking early retirement because they know it will be a very long time before they go back to work at a wage that pays significantly more than early retirement. Still others are retraining. But that's typical in recession, and I'm not sure what someone would retrain to do at a community college.
 
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Finite10 said:
I must value my plasma TV highly because so far I haven't tossed a boot at it when the TV news bubble-head talks about that baloney!

Also, I know of many guys taking early retirement because they know it will be a very long time before they go back to work at a wage that pays significantly more than early retirement. Still others are retraining. But that's typical in recession, and I'm not sure what someone would retrain to do at a community college.
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Some of the electricians around here went into fitness training jobs, transportation jobs, and medical jobs, some of them are making better money then the did in the electrical trades, but I think in a few years the electrical trades will come back and start to grow again in some of the special areas, but construction may be many years before it recovers
 
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