Real Estate Jobs and MBA Programs in Nevada

Real estate brokers can find prosperity in Nevada as the state has an abundance of educational and career opportunities. At 420, the number of jobs in Nevada for real estate brokers is projected to drop four percent to 610 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 Nevada earn $40 per hour or $84,000 per year on average. In the U.S. as a whole, their income is $37 hourly or $77,000 per year on average.

Nicknamed the Silver State, Nevada has a population of 2,643,085. It has seen its population grow by 32.3 percent over the last 10 years. The capital is Carson City. There were 1,638,004 total jobs in 2008 and workers in Nevada earned more than the previous year with an average annual income of $40,936, up from $40,930. The unemployment rate in Nevada was 11.8 percent in 2009. It went up by 5.1 percentage points since the previous year. The number of residents with a college degree is 18.2 percent. This falls short of the national average.

In Nevada, the top employers are in accommodation services, accommodation, traveler accommodation and casino hotels.

While being known for many things, one of the most noteworthy, Nevada is the seventh largest state with 110,540 square miles, 85% of them federally owned including the secret Area 51 near the little town of Rachel. One of the unique tidbits about Nevada is Pershing County located in Cowboy Country features one of only two round courthouses in the United States.

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.