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Occupations in demand list

All Workforce Development Areas, all counties

Qualification: Demand

SOC code: 519198

Helpers Production Workers

Help production workers by performing duties requiring less skill. Duties include supplying or holding materials or tools, and cleaning work area and equipment. Apprentice workers are classified in the appropriate production occupations (510000).

According to the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the typical level of education that most workers need to enter this occupation is: Less than high school. Additional training, experience, licenses or credentials may be required. Learn more at BLS.

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*How we calculate wages - Source data for wages come from the Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) survey and are subject to restrictions and limitations of the survey. Self-employment, private households and agricultural employment, except for agricultural services, are excluded from OES. All wage estimations are adjusted as of March 2013. Learn more.
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Qualification status for Helpers Production Workers in the other WDAs included below, for relevant areas.
Click on specific areas in table for occupation information for those areas.

Qualification	Soc area
Balanced	Pacific Mountain WDA: Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Thurston counties
Demand	Snohomish WDA: Snohomish County
Demand	Seattle King WDA: King County
Demand	Pierce WDA: Pierce County
Not in demand	Benton- Franklin WDA: Benton, Franklin counties
Demand	Spokane WDA: Spokane County
Demand	Northwest WDA I: Whatcom county
Demand	Southwest WDA I: Cowlitz, Wahkiakum counties
Not in demand	North Central WDA I: Chelan/Douglas counties
Demand	South Central WDA I: Kittitas County
Balanced	Olympic Consortium WDA I: Kitsap county
Demand	Northwest WDA II: Skagit county
Demand	Southwest WDA II: Clark County
Not in demand	North Central WDA II: Grant, Adams counties
Demand	South Central WDA II: Klickitat County
Balanced	Olympic Consortium WDA II: Clallam, Jefferson counties
Demand	Northwest WDA III: Island, San Juan counties
Not in demand	North Central WDA III: Okanogan County
Demand	South Central WDA III: Skamania County
Demand	South Central WDA IV: Yakima County
Demand	Eastern Washington WDA I: Stevens, Ferry, Pend Oreille, Lincoln counties