Real Estate Jobs and MBA Programs in Maine

Real estate brokers can find success in Maine as the state has plenty of educational and employment prospects. For real estate brokers, there are 230 jobs in Maine and this is projected to drop by one percent to 1,330 jobs by 2016. Prospects are worse for real estate brokers in state when compared to the national trend, which projects a eight percent bump in the number of jobs over the next 10 years. In general, real estate brokers operate real estate offices, or work for commercial real estate firms, overseeing real estate transactions.

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State figures show that real estate brokers in Maine earn $46 per hour or $96,000 per year on average. In the U.S. as a whole, their income is $37 hourly or $77,000 per year on average.

Maine, also known as the Pine Tree State, is home to 1,318,301 people. It has seen its population grow by 3.4 percent over the last 10 years. The capital is Augusta. There were 840,874 total jobs in 2008 and workers in Maine earned more than the previous year with an average annual income of $36,368, up from $35,028. The unemployment rate in Maine was 8.0 percent in 2009. It went up by 2.7 percentage points since the previous year. The number of residents with a college degree is 22.9 percent. This falls short of the national average.

In Maine, the top employers are in paper manufacturing, paperboard mills, direct selling establishments and fuel dealers.

While being known for many things, one of the most noteworthy, The White Mountain National Forest covers nearly 800,000 acres. The forest covers a landscape ranging from hardwood forests to the largest alpine area east of the Rocky Mountains. One of the unique tidbits about Maine is in Wilton there's a cannery that imports and cans only dandelion greens.

Real Estate

Real estate brokers operate real estate offices, or work for commercial real estate firms, overseeing real estate transactions.

They regularly sell, for a fee, real estate owned by others and maintain knowledge of real estate law, local economies, fair housing laws.

They are required to negotiate with others and try to resolve differences. Also, they must manage and maintain budgets and other financial resources.

Real estate brokers should be able to articulate ideas and problems and listen to and understand others in meetings.

In order to be successful in the workplace, real estate brokers must be thorough and dependable and be reliable.