Need for More High School Dropouts

Vladenschlutte
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:39:20 +0000

Employment in math occupations is expected to grow by 17 percent, adding 19,500 jobs by 2020. About half of these positions, 9,400, will be occupied by operations research analysts. Demand for these workers will increase as technology advances and companies need analysts to help them turn data into valuable information that can be used by managers to make better decisions in all aspects of their business.



In terms of education, more often than not that’s in Engineering and not Math.

I’m also confused about some of these… Accountants only need high school degrees?
Cashiers are going to experience growth? Not sure if the author’s been to a grocery store recently.

Another thing you’ll notice is that almost all of them have sub-25K year median salaries. Is that what we want in the future? The only jobs on the list in table 2 that have above 35K median salaries are Nurses, Truck Drivers (just barely), Post Secondary Teachers (so professors?), Elementary Teachers, and Sales Representatives. Hardly the future anyone wants.