As a truck driver, you know your job is important. If you weren’t out there doing your job, people throughout the country would suffer without access to their daily necessities. Now global job search engine Adzuna confirms what we have always known.
The company conducted an analysis of patriotic jobs available across the United States, highlighting professions responsible for the maintenance and improvement of the country. The analysis identified truck drivers as the most in-demand patriotic job in the United States. Nurse practitioners, construction workers and teachers round out the top four high opportunity fields, making up 90 percent of patriotic jobs available today.
The research analyzed almost 3.5 million jobs currently advertised on Adzuna.com to identify the volume, sector and location of roles within public service. The analysis found 1,560,716 open patriotic roles in the US, with top vacancies in California, Texas, Illinois and Virginia. The average salaries of these jobs range from $42,675 to $104,675.
Truck drivers are responsible for the transportation of goods that keep the country functioning but, according to the US Department of Labor, driving a truck is the deadliest occupation in the US. This, coupled with low average salary rates, provides insight into the growing skills shortage in the industry and could explain why truck driving is at the top of the list for positions with the most available job vacancies, at 778,000. According to Adzuna, the most open driver positions are in Illinois.
First responders that provide medical and protective services for citizens, including nurse practitioners, emergency medical service professionals, police officers and firefighters, make up around 25 percent of the patriotic jobs available in the US. Texas, Illinois and Florida make up the top states with the most vacancies in the field.
Lily Valentin, US Country Manager at Adzuna, commented “Many patriotic positions entail thankless responsibilities that work toward the benefit and greater good of the country, often times at the expense of workers’ health, well-being or work-life balance. We depend on these professions to provide us with clean water, nourishment, enduring public infrastructure and protection from a range of threats and disasters. We salute the unsung heroes that work tirelessly to maintain and advance our country, especially those that stick around in the face of low wages and disappearing resources.”
Source: OnRec