Workforce Development


ONLINE SERVICES

Alabama Employer Locator
This tool uses the Business Finder of the CareerOneStop to search for employers by keyword, business name, industry, or occupation. Listings in Business Finder are provided by Data Axle ® and are not reported from the confidential BLS records.

US Census Bureau, Local Employment Dynamics

ONLINE APPLICATIONS


Select an LED application:
 
About LED Extraction   About OnTheMap   About OTM for Emergency Mgt.   About QWI Explorer
LED time series data uses censuses and surveys to provide a broad scope of information. Applications included here are the LED Extract Tool , OnTheMap (OTM), OTM for Emergency Management, and QWI Explorer.

Statewide and Regional Products
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Accelerate Alabama

Accelerate Alabama is a strategic plan developed January 2012 to provide direction for economic development in the state for at least the next three years. Eleven industry clusters were identified as areas of focus for recruitment, retention, and renewal in the state. As a partner agency, the Alabama Department of Workforce provides information to support statewide economic development efforts. As a result, The Labor Market Information Division developed a presentation on each industry cluster which provides both trends and the most recent data to assist with the efforts of this initiative. For more information on the Accelerate Alabama plan visit http://www.madeinalabama.com/.

MadeInAlabama

An overview of each Industry Cluster is provided below:

Aerospace
Agriculture
Automotive
Bioscience
Chemical
Corporate Operations
Distribution Logistics
Forestry Products
Information Technology
Metal Manufacturing
Research & Development

DEMAND OCCUPATIONS

Education Career Cluster   

The Labor Market Information Division develops a full profile of industrial and occupational projections in cooperation with the Projections Managing Partnership (PMP). These projections support functional partners across the state and regional areas.

The Alabama Committee on Credentialing and Career Pathways (ACCCP) and related technical advisory committees are responsible for determining career pathways and creating competency-based frameworks for occupations. Specific occupations are determined as in-demand by applying the ACCCP criteria to LMI’s occupational projections.    Demand Methodology (PDF)





STATEWIDE


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STATEWIDE AND REGIONAL


Full Demand Lists and Summary Tables: 
Less Than Bachelor Demand List: 
Fast Growing Demand List: 
Top 25 Demand List: 
HOT 40 Occupations: 

 
Required Posters for Employer Workplace
Many requests from employers concern the required Alabama Child Labor Law, Workers' Compensation and Unemployment informational posters needed for display in their business.

REPORTS and SURVEYS

2022 Alabama State of the Workforce Report   
Statewide and area reports are the collaborative effort of several state agencies and the University of Alabama. Economic analysis is presented by the Center for Business and Economic Research(CBER) and the Institute for Social Science Research (ISSR).


Alabama Certifications and Licenses 2019-2023 Report
The State Certifications and Licenses Data, provides data to see relationships that exist between certifications/licenses and several different descriptive variables, such as demographics, occupations, industries, wages, and labor force. Report developed by The Council for Community and Economic Research (C2ER) and the Labor Market Information Institute.

Alabama Underemployment Forecast
This report presents the results of the first attempt at forecasting underemployment rates in the State of Alabama, Workforce Development Regions, and counties for 2013 through 2018 using past underemployment survey results.

Alabama Underemployment Report
2012 estimates of underemployed and characteristics of employed, underemployed and nonworkers for the state and workforce development areas. Includes the survey questions for underemployed and the results of the questions by area.

A Comparison of 2013 Underemployment Rate Forecasts And Survey Results in Alabama
This report presents a comparison of the 2013 underemployment survey results with the first attempt at forecasting those rates for the State of Alabama, workforce development regions, and counties. 2013 survey results are compared against the forecasted results for 2013.

Business Employment Dynamics(BED)   Interactive Icon
Business Employment Dynamics data are a quarterly measure of gross job gains (expansions and openings) and gross job losses (contractions and closings) and is derived from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.



Health Care Industry Cluster Report
(PDF) In the design of the ACCELERATE ALABAMA target industry cluster reports, this report provides a vast amount of data on the Healthcare Industry in the state to include; number of employers, size of employers, top occupations, employment trends, projections, and various demographics of workers in the industry. This report will be updated annually.

High Tech in Alabama
(PDF) Based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics standards of High Technology Industries and Occupations, this report displays the dispersion of high tech employment in the State and the Workforce Development Regions (WDR). It concludes with employment projections for these high tech industries and occupations for the State and regions.

WHN: Who's Hiring Now
The Who's Hiring Now Data Series fills a critical gap in the current U.S. economic indicators by providing real-time monthly measures of labor demand (advertised vacancies) at the state and sub-state regional levels. These monthly measures are comparable in timing and geographic detail to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly measures of labor supply (unemployment).   

Employment Projections
The Alabama Labor Market Information Division produces projected employment by occupation and industry for the State and Workforce Development Regions. National Projections are available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Office of Occupational Statistics and Employment Projections. High Demand, Fast Growing and Detailed Occupations are included in the Employment Projections interactive tables.

Older Worker Report 
(PDF) The Geographic Distribution and Characteristics of Older Workers in Alabama.