Occupations in demand list

South Central WDA II: Klickitat County Qualification: SOC code: 452092 Manually plant, cultivate, and harvest vegetables, fruits, nuts, horticultural specialties, and field crops. Use hand tools, such as shovels, trowels, hoes, tampers, pruning hooks, shears, and knives. Duties may include tilling soil and applying fertilizers; transplanting, weeding, thinning, or pruning crops; applying pesticides; or cleaning, grading, sorting, packing, and loading harvested products. May construct trellises, repair fences and farm buildings, or participate in irrigation activities. Excludes “Graders and Sorters, Agricultural Products" (452041) and “Forest, Conservation, and Logging Workers" (454011 through 454029). 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. * Average annual wage (March 2013): * Average hourly wage (March 2013): Short-Term trend : Long-Term trend : Estimated employment (2011): Average annual total openings (2011-2021): Average annual growth (2011-2021): Additional occupation information is available through the Learn about an occupation tool. If values all show zero, employment levels were too low to develop estimates for the geographic area selected. Search again with “All Workforce Development Areas, all counties.” *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. Close window Qualification status for in the other WDAs included below, for relevant areas. Click on specific areas in table for occupation information for those areas. Qualification Soc area Not in demand All workforce development areas, all counties Not in demand Pacific Mountain WDA: Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific, Thurston counties Balanced Snohomish WDA: Snohomish County Demand Seattle King WDA: King County Not in demand Pierce WDA: Pierce County Not in demand Benton- Franklin WDA: Benton, Franklin counties Not in demand Spokane WDA: Spokane County Not in demand Northwest WDA: Whatcom county Not in demand Southwest WDA: Cowlitz, Wahkiakum counties Not in demand North Central WDA: Chelan/Douglas counties Not in demand South Central WDA: Kittitas County Balanced Olympic Consortium WDA: Kitsap county Not in demand Northwest WDA: Skagit county Not in demand Southwest WDA: Clark County Not in demand North Central WDA: Grant, Adams counties Balanced Olympic Consortium WDA: Clallam, Jefferson counties Not in demand Northwest WDA: Island, San Juan counties Not in demand North Central WDA: Okanogan County Not in demand South Central WDA: Skamania County Not in demand South Central WDA: Yakima County Not in demand Eastern Washington WDA: Stevens, Ferry, Pend Oreille, Lincoln counties Not in demand Eastern Washington WDA: Asotin, Garfield, Whitman counties Not in demand Eastern Washington WDA: Columbia, Walla Walla counties