Manufacturing is critical to U.S. economic growth, but projecting what kind of growth we will actually see is difficult. With forecasts ranging from as few as 100,000 new jobs over 10 years to as many as 3.8 million, the real question is where that growth will occur—and at what pace.

Because states publish projections independently, researchers at ETQ pulled data from 49 individual state agencies to create a proprietary manufacturing job growth dataset, then generated the most recent 10-year projection for each state.

Here are the key findings for South Carolina at a glance: • Manufacturing employment is projected to grow by 8.5% in South Carolina between 2022 and 2032, the 10th largest increase in the nation. • This translates to a total gain of 22,071 manufacturing jobs over that s

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