Jobs for manufacturing experts are up by 11% since October of last year. Hiring for these positions peaked in January. There was a small drop of less than 1% in February. This information corroborates a story in the Wall Street Journal which said that "indexes of manufacturing output hit their highest levels in seven years in the U.S. ". What NimbleCat's information adds to the WSJ story is that most of the increase took place in the rust belt.
All of the top five metro areas for manufacturing jobs in February were in or near the rust belt. Detroit claimed almost 5% of new manufacturing jobs , with Chicago, Minneapolis, Milwaukee and Tulsa following along. The increase of manufacturing jobs in Detroit confirms a story in Daily Finance that places auto manufacturing in the top ten growth industries for 2011.
Jobs that are related to manufacturing, namely supply chain, logistics and procurement held steady during this period.
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