Employment
Provo has a labor force of 176,703 with 166,818 of the labor force having gainful employment. This means that 9,885 people are unemployed making the unemployment rate 5.7 percent.
Most of the workforce age 16 or older is employed in management, professional or related occupations (38.3 percent), sales and office occupations (28.8 percent) and service occupations (16.1 percent). The educational, health and social services makes up the largest percentage of the employment sector at 32.7 percent.
More than 45 percent of Provo’s workforce is between 20- and 30-years-old. And most workers make from $25,000 to 100,000 annually.
Provo’s biggest employers are as follows:
- Brigham Young University 14,500 employees
- Alpine School District 6,213 employees
- Utah Valley State College 3,761 employees
- IHC Health Care Services 3,700 employees
- Nebo School District 2,655 employees
- Provo School District 2,400 employees
- Novell 1,800 employees
- Nestle USA Food Group Inc. 1,800 employees
- Convergy’s 1,600 employees
Overall job growth is high in Provo. Forbes Magazine rates Provo number 35 of all American cities in regards to the percentage of job growth.
Fast Facts
- Provo is 40.24 degrees north of the equator.
- According to Forbes Magazine, the city was 2004’s sixth best place to live in the United States.
- The city library has 178,701 books.
- Provo is 4,549 feet above sea level.
- Brett Keisel, 2005 NFL player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, was born in Provo.
- Average summer temperature is 75°F in the summer and 30°F in the winter.
- Provo is sunny more than 60 percent of the time from mid-February to the beginning of November.
- Provo takes up 39.6 square miles.
- Average annual precipitation is 20.13 inches of rain and 60.40 inches of snow each year.