With the arrival of sufficient inexpensive natural gas, there is a huge growth of petrochemical and chemical plant construction which give birth for skilled crafts workers in Louisiana.
Gulf Coast firms are planning to recruit significant numbers of workers due to the enormous growth of nuclear power plant projects in the Southeast and the shale boom in the Midwest and Rockies.
The wages for welders in Houston have increased to 8.7 percent in the current year and several industrial contractors from Texas city are providing per diem payments to workers coming in from outside the market.
There will be requirements of near about 86,300 industrial construction workers in Louisiana by 2016 for fulfilling newjobs owning to industrial projects and to make up for the attrition of workers. Out of that total requirements 20,065 jobs will be required in the metro Baton Rouge area, 17,814 in New Orleans, 28,284 in Lake Charles, with another 20,137 required in the rest of the state.