Employment Outlook

Job Market Analysis:

The Pepin Area School District is located in Pepin County. The top industries by employment in Pepin County in the 4^th quarter of 2016 were: education services, animal production & aquaculture, executive legislative & general government, specialty trade contractors and nursing & residential care facilities.

Pepin County is part of the West Central Workforce Development Area. Other counties include: Barron, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Pierce, Polk and St. Croix. The West Central Workforce Development Area Industry Projections for 2012-2022 indicate that the top five industries with the highest projected employment increase are: construction, professional & business services, education & health services, leisure & hospitality and other services. Specific occupations in these projections are: computer & mathematical, legal, healthcare practitioners, building & grounds maintenance and construction & extraction. The occupations with the most projected total openings are: office & administrative support, food preparation & serving, sales & related, production, healthcare practitioners and transportation & material moving.

The state of Wisconsin’s three leading job sectors include: healthcare & social assistance, retail and manufacturing.

For more information, you can visit the websites below:

Wisconsin’s WorkNet: Information to Grow Wisconsin’s Workforce

http://worknet.wisconsin.gov/worknet_info/Downloads/CP/pepin_profile.pdf

http://worknet.wisconsin.gov/worknet/

WiseDash:

The current job market’s impact on student preparation:

These job market projections strongly influence how we will prepare our students for adulthood. The variety of jobs available in the area and the variations in training required requires us to give students the tools they need to pursue any avenue. Therefore, our district will be preparing students to immediately enter the workforce, prepare students interested in the trades and technical degrees and also prepare those students interested in pursuing military careers or advanced degrees at the university level.

The Pepin Area School District provides students with the opportunity to participate in Advanced Placement (AP) classes, Youth Apprenticeships, Work Study, and Youth Options classes at technical and four year colleges. Students have access to college level classes through our distant learning lab (ITV). The district provides a variety of CTE classes with transcripted credit options available.