Great article about Utah’s economy in Utah Business Magazine this month. I feel like writing something scathing about companies treating employees badly. But I will refrain. I’ll just say there’s never been a better time to treat your employees or past employees well.

Quote from the article:
“Utah is doing extremely well right now,” Thredgold says. The state’s current unemployment rate of 2.5 percent is “incredibly low, possibly the lowest we have ever had in this state.”

In the past 12 months, the state has experienced a net job growth of more than 58,000 additional jobs—a growth rate of 5 percent, which will likely rank Utah second or third in the country in terms of job growth for 2006. Utah’s neighbors, Arizona, Idaho and Nevada are also seeing similar growth.

New jobs have been added in virtually every industry in Utah…”

I only feel sorry for technical writers. I read a report that the highest paying tech writers make $95k a year average. Utah is at the bottom at $44k. Pay actually went down $3,000 from last year. Ouch. If I were a technical writer a telcommuting job would look very attractive about now.

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