The good news is there are twice as many job openings in southwest Minnesota as there were two years ago, according to the most recent (second quarter 2011) Job Vacancy Survey from the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development.
The bad news is of the 4,300 job openings in southwest Minnesota, only 2,500 are full time.
Nearly three-quarters (73 percent) of all openings require no education or training beyond high school.
Other major findings for southwest Minnesota include:
Forty-one percent of openings are part time.
Only 45 percent of openings offer health care.
The median wage for all openings is $10 per hour.
Experts say the median wage is not enough to make ends meet. JOBS NOW's Cost of Living research shows that in a southwest Minnesota family of four with both parents working full time, each worker must earn $12.47 per hour to meet basic needs.
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