Salt Lake City has consistently located in the Top 25 Best Cities for US Jobs listed by Frobes Magazine and other business analysts.

In addition, Salt Lake City is Number One for 2008.

Fastest Growing Industries in the Area

The Number One fast-growing industry in the Salt Lake City Area is not healthcare, as it is in many metropolitan workforce development districts of the US, but Management and Technological-Scientific Consulting. This growth goes hand in hand with that of others others in this Top 10 List, including Internet services in the Number 10 spot; Finance, Investment, and Securites/Commodities; Senior Services, and Healthcare.

1. Management, scientific, and technical consulting services, 78% INCREASE
2. Services for the elderly and disabled, 74%
3. Gambling industries, 66%
4. Home health care services, 55%
5. Educational support services, all types, 53%
6. Community care facilities for the elderly, 50%
7. Misc. financial investment services, 47%
8. Facilities support services, 46%
9. Securities and commodity contracts, brokerages, and exchanges, 46%
10. Internet publishing and broadcasting, 44%

Fastest Growing Occupations

Healthcare occupations, which are needed by many of the Fast-Growing Industries listed above, comprise the majority of job titles that are expanding and offering the greatest number of yearly openings in the area in and around Salt Lake City.

InformationTechnology (IT), which is used in all of the Top 10 Fast-Growing Industries, takes the Number 1 and Number 4 spots on this list of expanding job titles.

Financial Advisors are needed not only by the long-lived surviving Baby Boomers and oldest elderly (80- 100+) surviving in the area, but by the large population of indidivuals aged 18 - 49 in the metropolitan area.

Finally, entertainment Makeup artists are in increasing demand, indicating a rise in the Entertainment and Tourism Industries as well.

1. Network systems and data communications analysts
2. Personal and home care aides
3. Home health aides
4. Computer software engineers, applications
5. Veterinary technologists and technicians
6. Personal financial advisors
7. Makeup artists, theatrical and performance (Entertainment and Tourism)
8. Medical assistants
9. Veterinarians
10. Substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors

1. Aaa Truck Driver Training
2. Arnold And Marti Stringhams Real Estate School
3. Brigham Young U. - Salt Lake Center
4. Cameo College Of Essential Beauty
5. Certified Careers Institute
6. Latter Day Saints Business College
7. MTA Truck Driving School
8. Myotherapy College Of Utah
9. Salt Lake Community College
10. Salt Lake Community College Skills Center
11. Sherman Kendalls Academy
12. University Of Phoenix
13. University Of Utah
14. Utah College Of Massage Therapy
15. Western Governors University
16. Westminster College

• Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Family History Library

• LDS and Salt Lake City