IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CareerBliss, the leading online career community with millions of open local jobs, employee reviews and salary listings, announces new data which reveals what job types are showing the strongest increase in salary and open job positions for 2011. The CareerBliss data reveals some job salary listings increasing by twenty percent from 2009. This data is in conjunction with an increase in overall job openings from 2008 and 2009. The new data shows for these Top 50 Comeback Jobs, the job market is definitely improving.
CareerBliss analyzed more than six million data points to determine what jobs types are seeing the largest increase in pay from 2009 to 2011.
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Top 10 Comeback Jobs: |
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| Annual Salary | Annual Salary | ||||||||
| Job Title | Salary change | 2009 | 2011 | ||||||
| 1. Tax Preparer | 29.59 | % | $ | 27,682.00 | $ | 39,314.00 | |||
| 2. Customer Care Representative | 26.17 | % | $ | 29,335.00 | $ | 39,732.00 | |||
| 3. Law Clerk | 24.77 | % | $ | 42,141.00 | $ | 56,016.00 | |||
| 4. Regional Sales Director | 23.83 | % | $ | 92,078.00 | $ | 120,884.00 | |||
| 5. Operations Specialist | 19.64 | % | $ | 46,067.00 | $ | 57,328.00 | |||
| 6. Project Coordinator | 18.15 | % | $ | 47,472.00 | $ | 57,997.00 | |||
| 7. Sales Agent | 18.00 | % | $ | 43,073.00 | $ | 52,528.00 | |||
| 8. Senior QA Analyst | 16.67 | % | $ | 74,345.00 | $ | 89,219.00 | |||
| 9. Technical Recruiter | 16.40 | % | $ | 49,295.00 | $ | 58,967.00 | |||
| 10. Technical Support | 16.39 | % | $ | 36,218.00 | $ | 43,317.00 | |||
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Heidi Golledge, Co-founder and CEO of CareerBliss, says, “At CareerBliss we are in the unique position to have more than 6 million data points related to careers, salaries, employee happiness and hiring. We are able to utilize this data to have an insider’s look into the job market and what options are out there for jobseekers. Our data indicates jobs related to customer care and sales support have increased in both salary and open job listings. This data indicates that companies are investing in the people needed to ensure their customers remain happy and continue to grow sales.”
In addition, CareerBliss data shows that the open job listings are on the rise:
| Current Job | |
| Job Title | Openings |
| Tax Preparer | 1920 |
| Customer Care Representative | 1886 |
| Law Clerk | 1212 |
| Regional Sales Director | 1070 |
| Operations Specialist | 1131 |
| Project Coordinator | 6233 |
| Sales Agent | 1994 |
| Senior QA Analyst | 1252 |
| Technical Recruiter | 1334 |
| Technical Support | 2634 |
“We have seen a 78 percent increase in open jobs across many of our job types including the top ten listed in our data,” says Matt Miller, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of CareerBliss. “Technical recruiters and sales agents job openings have more than doubled and their salary levels are on the rise. This data is consistent with our research that not only is the job market improving, but so to is the salary level for many of these jobs.”
For more information on this data: http://www.careerbliss.com/50-jobs-with-the-highest-salary-increase-1/technical-support-10/http://www.careerbliss.com/50-jobs-with-the-highest-salary-increase-1/technical-support-10/
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