A great place to live, work and play. Washington State is a study in contrasts. Formed by volcanic upheaval and born out of a fierce, independent pioneer spirit, the state offers its residents endless opportunities. Indeed, Washington is not only the ideal place to build a business or career, but it’s a great place to [...]
Talented, educated and driven. It’s no accident that Washington State offers employers a superbly educated and trained workforce. It’s in our nature. People in the Northwest thrive on learning. In fact, approximately 90% are high school graduates (compared to 75% nationally) and three-fourths of the students at the state’s largest university call Washington home after [...]
Doing the impossible every day. Forbes magazine recently named the Seattle area the #1 region for technology job growth. You don’t have to tell companies like Amazon, Boeing, Google and Microsoft that. These leaders in their respective industries already know that Washington State has a rich tradition of innovation, from ushering in the dawn of [...]
Expand your market overseas. Washington State businesses understand the power of tapping overseas markets. Last year, $75.5 billion in goods were shipped worldwide by 8,400+ companies. Not surprising, given that the state’s proximity, geography and exports know-how make it the ideal place to set up an export business. While Washington is known worldwide for its [...]
Abundant, renewable and inexpensive. If your business needs lots of power, you’ll love Washington State. Low cost energy is one of the many reasons why companies like BMW and Amazon Web Services have located their operations here. We offer businesses the largest coordinated hydroelectric system in the world. Nearly 75% of our power is derived [...]
Drawing more than 150,000 industry attendees and featuring 2,113 exhibitors from 45 countries, The International Paris Air Show is the one place everyone in aerospace wants to be in 2013. Washington State will certainly be there Jun 17-23. As a global aerospace leader, our state
For more than a century, Washington State has been at the center of the aviation and space industry. From our humble beginnings in 1909 to our role as the global leader in aerospace today, our 131,000+ aerospace workers and more than 1,200 aerospace firms have
Washington State No. 1 in software publishing jobs, ranks third in tech wages.
According to the annual Cyberstates report from the TechAmerica foundation, tech workers in Washington state earned an average annual wage of $110,200. This places Washington in third place in terms of tech wages behind California ($123,900) and Massachusetts ($116,000). It’s also up from 2011 when Washington tech workers on average earned $105,500. Nationally, the tech [...]
Best place to make a living? Washington is #1.
If you’re struggling to find employment; unhappy in your current job; or disappointed with your paycheck — relocation might be the best solution. Why? Factors like workplace conditions, cost of living, income, taxes, and unemployment rates can differ vastly from state to state. MoneyRates.com, a source of information on bank rates, personal finance, savings accounts [...]
Walla Walla Community College wins national prize for excellence!
A community college in a rural Washington town sees the potential in a growing local wine industry and scrapes up enough money to start a program in enology and viticulture. Then it sees the potential in wind energy and begins training students how to fix and maintain wind turbines, which are sprouting across the hills [...]
Seattle, the promised land for startups.
GeekWire interviewed Tableau CEO Christian Chabot recently. Part of the conversation included what drove Tableau to Seattle and whether it was the right move. Chabot co-founded Tableau back in 2003 down at Stanford University but decided to bring the visual analytics software business up north to the Emerald City. Learn what Chabot had to say [...]
Seattle women entrepreneurs hold strong at #2!
If you’re a woman and an entrepreneur, there are few better places to be in than Seattle. That’s according to a new study from personal finance site Nerd Wallet, who placed Seattle just behind San Francisco as the best place for women entrepreneurs. Here’s what they had to say about Seattle: Seattle is one of [...]
Flowroute cites great tax rates…moves headquarters to Seattle.
Flowroute, which provides wholesale voice-over-Internet services to businesses, has moved its headquarters from Southern California to Seattle. The company cited Seattle’s favorable tax rates and low cost of living as reasons for the move, as well as the general “vibe” of the city close to hiking and biking trails. Flowroute previously had been based in [...]