Invest Hamilton County with the Indiana Business Research Center
Employer requirement screener
Pick a county or region, pick the kind of employer on the table, and see whether that work would ask more or less of a workforce than the work already happening there.
Place
County or region
Regions are Indiana’s twelve Economic Growth Regions, the same ones the state Department of Workforce Development uses. They are not the fifteen READI 2.0 regions used by the traded-industry occupations page, and several names appear in both.
Sixteen of Indiana’s 92 counties are not listed. BLS does not publish enough industry detail for them. They are all small and rural, and a screen built on a third of a county’s economy would not be worth running. Use the region instead.
Employer
Industry and job count
Result
What the work would ask of a workforce
How to read this
What the capability index is. Nine skills survive occupation-clustered standard errors in our wage model; the other 26 of O*NET’s 35 do not. The index is the sum, over those nine, of what the labour market pays for a skill times the level the work demands. It is built exactly the same way for a job mix as for a county. That is what makes the two comparable.
This is not a fiscal impact. It says nothing about tax revenue, abatement terms, infrastructure cost or site fit. A job mix that asks less of a workforce can still be the right deal for a community. This page takes no view on that. The Economic Impact Engine answers the fiscal question.
It is not a forecast and not an endorsement. It describes what the work would demand of people, on today’s wage relationships and today’s staffing patterns.
A negative price is not a judgement about the work. Service Orientation carries the most negative price of the nine. That is what the labour market separately pays for it once the other eight skills are held still. It is a large part of why care work is hard to staff at the wages offered. It says nothing about the value of that work to a community.
The local staffing section is a different source. Everything above it comes from BLS, and the capability index is built from the BLS national staffing pattern because the county and region figures are built the same way. The two mixes in that section are both Lightcast, measured for each Economic Growth Region. They are never set against the BLS pattern: Lightcast and BLS group several occupations differently, and the BLS patterns cover only 39 to 82 percent of an industry’s employment because small cells are suppressed. A region with fewer than 400 jobs in the industry reports no pattern at all.
Pay figures are national. Median pay for each role is the BLS national figure, not an Indiana wage. County average pay, where it appears, is measured Indiana payroll from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.