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Statshot: Virtual Vocations
Remote work is here to stay. It can pay well, too.
By Seattle Business Magazine April 1, 2022
This article originally appeared in the March/April 2022 issue of Seattle magazine.
Employers are taking note: Many workers have no desire to ever return to an office full time. A survey by PwC finds that 41% of remote workers want to remain that way. A survey by data company PeopleSmart reveals nearly a quarter of almost 800 of the most common jobs across the country can be done fully or partially remotely. Here are the 10 most popular remote and flextime jobs and their median pay in Washington state as of November 2021.
- Software Developers and Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers – $139,450
- Web Developers and Digital Interface Designers – $139,620
- Market Research Analysts and Marketing Specialists – $83,880
- Management Analysts – $98,870
- Computer Systems Analysts – $106,240
- Logisticians – $88,880
- Data Scientists and Mathematical Science Occupations, All Other – $117,260
- Civil Engineers – $89,140
- Project Management Specialists and Business Operations Specialists, All Other – $81,130
- Web Administrators and Computer Systems Engineers/Architects – $92,010
Source: PeopleSmart
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“I’ve got nothing against Subway, and I’m not picking on them, but I’d rather see the concept of food trucks or that sort of approach, because I think that’s the culture we’re going to try and build.”
Steve Rimmer, head of Snoqualmie Mill Ventures LLC, which wants to build a 261-acre mixed-use development on the site of a former Weyerhaeuser mill in Snoqualmie that closed almost 20 years ago.
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$370 billion
Economic impact of the “Blue Economy” (the sustainable use of ocean resources for economic growth) in the United States.