A new study released by the Workforce Alliance and the Skills2Compete-Illinois campaign reports that nearly one million of the US job openings through 2014 will be in the middle-level job market. Such openings will be jobs that require more than a high school diploma, but less than a four-year degree. It is also claimed that most jobs will be technical ones that cannot be outsourced.

In the report, the Bureau of Labor Statistics claimed that 33% of the job openings will require a high degree of skill, with 22% being in the low-skill category. The study shows that middle-skill job openings continue to be the largest share of Illinois’ labor market. The openings will account for almost half of the openings between 2004 and 2014.

In Illinois, jobs in the middle-skill sector offer median incomes that exceed the state’s 2006 overall median of $31,637.

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