Page 12 - State of the Region Report 2020

12 State of the Lansing Region, 2020

Private vs. Public Sector
Employment

At 76.1%, the Lansing region’s share of private
sector employment has remained unchanged since
2014. The area has one of the lowest shares of
private employment among the peer regions.
Conversely, the Lansing region maintained the
second highest share of employment in the public
sector. For this measure, “public” includes govern-
ment, universities, schools, and public hospitals.

Occupational
Opportunities

Overall, employment is projected to increase by
about 8% between 2016 and 2026. Computer and
mathematical occupations, healthcare practi-
tioners and technical occupations, management,
and business and financial occupations are each
expected to add more than 1,000 employees in
the Lansing region.

Further, some of the occupations projected to
have the highest job growth rate over the next 10
years are many of the occupations critical to the
success of the region’s growth industries: insur-
ance services and insurtech, agricultural technol-
ogy and food innovation, medtech, accelerator,
and life sciences; and advanced manufacturing.