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Show ... GoveremeEt job dependence oe decline CLEARFIELD - Dependence oil government jobs for aiea employment employ-ment has declined over the past de' r-cade. ': .fri .:L-vCV-: -While the percentage of those working in government-related jobs , '.' in .: Davis, Weber and Morgan counties has declined by more than three percent, the importance of the , trade and services sectors has more thaij filled the gap. - r - : , -7 , , Job Service Manager Jack Bailey ' notes that while 36 in every 100 employed in the three-county re-" re-" . . gion was working for a government agency in 1978, that has dipped to 32.7 percent At the same time, the .-. actual number working in federal, state and local government jobs has increased by nearly ,5,000. Some "38,260 were listed as working in 5 that category as of December l. .. The percentage is down,,; however, because the total of non-' farm jobs in the region has risen front 9210 in 1978 to just under 117,000 currently. ,.; ; , i r And while just over 35 percent of the workforce Was engaged in a job categorized as trade .or services-related services-related a decade.ago, those num bers-and the percentage-have skyrocketed since. Today, trade alone employs 26,850, or 23 per cent of the labor force. Nearly as many-2330 or 20.2 percent, are . engaged in services. Better than two in five employed in the area work in : one of those two job sectors. , Of course, many additional job opportunities have opened up since ; - 1978, Mr. Bailey is quick to point out. None of the three major malls-Layton malls-Layton Hills, Ogden City or New gate, was "on line" at that time. Neither were K-Mart, an expanded Smith's Management presence in both, stores and office-production, ; or a myriad of other shops and ; businesses. : ' , Davis County's population was" , closer to 40XXJ back then, compared com-pared to an estimated 180,000 today: to-day: . : . ', ; How do other job segments compare? com-pare? . ' . Construction is making some-i.what some-i.what of a rebound, but still employs fewer than 10 years ago., Some 4.240 are listed currendy for 3.6 . percent bf the labor force, compared to 5,870, or 6.3 percent in 1978 The number in transportation-related transportation-related jobs .has also dipped, .slightly, down from 4,460 to 4,090 currently. That's a decline from one in 22 jobs to one in 28. Finance provides jobs for 3,470 compared to just under 3,000 back in 1978, with its percentage share dropping, however, from 32 percent per-cent to three percent Government's share stood ; at 33320 jobs for the 36 percent total and has grown to 38,260, with just under one in three now working in that job sector. Although manufacturing has shown steady growth during the period, up from 12.91Q jobs to 16,260, its overall percentage has stayed about the same, now at 13.9 percent. A more diversified economy is developing in the county and re-: re-: gion, I Mr.ia Bailey reaffirms, with 3,100 jobs added in the area over , the past year, for about one hew position in 40. There were 79,260 listed on Davis County's civilian labor force with 3320 out of work, or 4.2 percent compared to 5.5 per-- per-- cent in Weber, 6.8 in Morgan and 4.8 percent statewide. Some 53,490 ( positions existed within the county. |
