A labor market conundrum: Skilled and high-paying blue-collar jobs go unfilled

Re:A labor market conundrum: Skilled and high-paying blue-co... by alttab on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @02:59PM (#14705194)

So, don't go to college and become a regional manager of a lumber company.

I feel like the only reason they can even joke with a headline like this is technically the entry level positions don't require college degrees.

My second guess is the current regional managers making over $1m a year have some type of extended formal education. I could be wrong here, but probably not.

A casual search for "84 lumber manager" on LinkedIn produced 6 relevant listings on the front page - 5 of which had university degrees.

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Re:A labor market conundrum: Skilled and high-paying blue-co... by Merad on Wednesday July 05, 2017 @03:36PM (#14705479)

According to Wikipedia, 84 Lumber has about 250 store. I would hazard a guess that there is one manager and perhaps three assistant managers per store - about 1000 "well paying" jobs. I'd also bet that only a very small portion of their store managers, maybe 10-15%, make $200k+.

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