Jobs

Reporter Joanne Drilling talks about six-figure salaries in the South and which industries have seen significant pay increases in recent years.

The location near Greensboro will serve as Toyota’s epicenter of lithium-ion battery production in North America. It will be a key supplier for the Kentucky-based plant tasked with building Toyota's first U.S.-made electric vehicles.

The company employed about 700 people in Taylorsville.

The recruitment push comes as many state agencies are struggling to retain workers.

The jobless rate has been slowly dropping since late last year.

North Carolina’s state government agencies are facing a major worker shortage. They’re looking to the legislature this year to increase salaries so they can better recruit and retain employees.

Credit Suisse executives say it's too early to talk about job cuts. It announced plans to eliminate 9,000 positions late last year.

The report says North Carolina ranked ninth in the U.S. for tech job growth from 2016 to 2021.

Several high-tech companies have announced they’re expanding in the region known as the Carolina Core, which stretches from the Triad southeast through the middle of the state to Fayetteville.

A General Assembly staff economist wrote last week that state employment had returned to pre-pandemic levels last summer and had exceeded them.