High-paying jobs: Unwanted? The hardest slots to fill in Utah pay about $15 to $40 per hour

April 19, 2008

Utah's unemployment rate may be rising, but there is a flip side to the state statistics.

There still are tens of thousands of job openings in Utah with employers just waiting for workers to fill them.

A new Job Vacancy Study by the Utah Department of Workforce Services, which was based upon a survey of nearly 3,500 employers conducted during the fourth quarter of last year, indicates there were nearly 35,000 job openings in the metropolitan areas of the Wasatch Front.

There were 3,500 more openings in Washington and Iron counties and another 1,000 openings in the rest of the state.

By Steven Oberbeck The Salt Lake Tribune

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