ktxhopem3276 t1_j68upth wrote
Us steel has signaled they don’t plan to upgrade the mon valley works and instead have bought an electric arc mill in Arkansas. I think the writing is on the wall that steel production will move out of Pittsburgh to areas with an abundance of cheap green electricity like hydro solar and wind. It’s going to take decades to wind down the area steel mills.
1.2 million jobs in the metro area. 4000 employees at US Steel and 1500 at ATI. Maybe there are 20,000 downstream steel manufacturing jobs.
Education and health 233,000 Trade and transport 200,000 Professionals 187,000 Government 106,000 Leisure 125,000 Financials 76,000 Manufacturing 83,000 Construction 64,000 Information 21,000 Mining 9000 Financials 76,000
BorisTheMansplainer t1_j6b1apk wrote
Contractors get a lot of work at the mills. Or at least they did when upgrades were still planned, or when stuff caught fire.
ktxhopem3276 t1_j6b2h6n wrote
Yikes that fire was a mess. It’s hard to estimate exactly but I could round up to an optimistic 50,000 or 5% of area jobs with half downstream manufacturing jobs. Hopefully healthcare education and tech make up for the slow decline over the next decade or more
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