Retail Enterprise Management Jobs and MBA Programs in Washington

Washington has plenty of educational and career opportunities for retail sales managers. For retail sales managers in Washington, the job pool currently sits at 21,830 and is expected to grow by 11 percent to 36,950 jobs by 2016. This is better than the national trend for retail sales managers, which sees the job pool growing at about five percent over the next 10 years. In general, retail sales managers directly supervise sales workers in a retail establishment or department and participate in purchasing, budgeting and personnel decisions.

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State figures show that retail sales managers in Washington earn $22 per hour or $46,000 per year on average. In the U.S. as a whole, their income is $19 hourly or $39,000 per year on average.

Washington, also known as the Evergreen State, has a population of 6,664,195. It has grown by 13.1 percent in the last 10 years. Olympia is the state capital. There were 4,012,270 total jobs in 2008 and workers in Washington earned more than the previous year with an average annual income of $42,747, up from $41,919. The unemployment rate in Washington was 8.9 percent in 2009. It went up by 3.5 percentage points since the previous year. The number of residents with a college degree is 27.7 percent. This is below the national average.

Software publishers, offices of dentists, monorail system manufacturing and refrigerated warehousing are the top employing fields in Washington.

While being known for many things, one of the most noteworthy, Everett is the site of the world's largest building, Boeing's final assembly plant. One of the unique tidbits about Washington is the state of Washington is the only state to be named after a United States president.

Retail Enterprise Management

Retail sales managers directly supervise sales workers in a retail establishment or department and participate in purchasing, budgeting and personnel decisions.

While working, they supervise employees working on sales, inventory-taking, reconciling cash receipts, and performing services for clients and work with company officials to evolve methods to increase sales and promote business.

They are required to pay attention to ongoing situations and monitor them as they develop and train others in tasks and process.

Retail sales managers should be able to articulate ideas and problems and listen to and understand others in meetings.

In order to be successful in the workplace, retail sales managers must have strong self control in the face of challenging situations and be reliable.