The statistics are provided by the Georgia Association of Manufacturers (GAM), which uses Lightcast, a labor market analytics platform. Lightcast aggregates data from reliable sources, including job postings, company filings, government statistics (e.g., Bureau of Labor Statistics), labor market surveys, social media profiles (e.g., LinkedIn), and industry-specific data. This allows GAM to offer comprehensive, real-time insights into labor trends, skills demand, and job market dynamics.
The manufacturing employment, wage, and economic impact figures on this page are based on the latest data from Lightcast, specifically the 2025.1 dataset of the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW). This dataset includes statistics from the last two quarters of 2023 and the first two quarters of 2024. Finalized annual data for 2024 will be available in August 2025.
