Skills gap in US manufacturing not so bad, says BCG

Serious skilled worker shortages affect less than 1 per cent of the US manufacturing workforce, according to research by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) released on 15 October.

BCG estimates that the US is short of between 80,000 and 100,000 highly skilled manufacturing workers, which represents less than 1 per cent of the nation’s 11.5 million manufacturing workers, and less than 8 per cent of its 1.4 million highly skilled manufacturing workers.