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Area Name : Washington State
Occupation Title : Dishwashers
Occupational Group : Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations
Description : Clean dishes, kitchen, food preparation equipment, or utensils.
Demand Designation : in Demand Demand
Demand Rank : 51
Estimated Employment : 9,470
Projected Employment : 9,783
Annual
Growth Rate : 		1.64%
Annual Openings : 715
Short-Term Trend: in Demand growth
Long-Term Trend : in Demand growth
Annual Wage : $20,919.00
UI Ratio : 2.12%
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Data Source : WA State Employment Security Dept. : Labor Market Economic Analysis
Website : Learn About an Occupation

Wage Data : is for March 2011
Employment Data (including Growth Rates and Estimated and Projected Employment: is for 2nd Qrtr. 2010 - 2nd Qrtr. 2012 (published May 2011)
Demand Data : published in May 2011.

The UI Ratio is the number of unemployment insurance claims divided by estimated employment for second quarter 2010.
A lower number indicates that fewer UI Claims were made for the given occupation and a blank ratio -- indicated by just a '%' sign -- shows that no UI Claims were made for the occupation.

Demand Designations : are relative to a given area. So, an occupation deemed to be 'Not In Demand' statewide could still be 'In Demand' within a sub-state area, such as, Spokane.

For comparison purposes the average Wages and Growth Rates by Area within Washington are as follow:

Area NameMean Annual WageMean Hourly WageAverage
Short-term Growth Rate
Washington State $49,514$23.801.49%
Olympic Consortium $45,566$21.910.86%
Pacific Mountain $43,760$21.041.22%
Northwest $41,861$20.121.40%
Snohomish County $50,213$24.141.84%
Seattle-King County $56,287$27.061.67%
Pierce County $46,161$22.191.37%
SW Washington $45,103$21.691.57%
North Central Washington$38,932 $18.711.03%
South Central$39,008 $18.760.88%
Eastern Washington$42,691 $20.530.93%
Benton-Franklin$48,214 $23.181.18%
Spokane$42,594 $20.481.66%


Further information regarding the data, including a description of the methodology used to construct the Demand-Decline rankings for individual occupations, can be found in the 'About the Data' section of this website.

The data used by EconQuery are derived from public sources.

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