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Tempe residents value knowledge. More
than 40 percent of Tempe's residents over the age of 25 hold a bachelor's
degree or higher. Another 14 percent have a graduate degree.
Tempe residents are among the most educated in the
metropolitan area. This means that businesses looking for well-informed,
well-trained employees will likely find them in Tempe. With more than a dozen
trade schools, colleges and universities within Tempe, employers will have
no problem helping their workers continue their education.
As a result of this highly-intelligent atmosphere, Tempe
has a large percentage of knowledge workers. Software engineers, scientific
researchers, photographers, marketing professionals, lawyers and venture
capitalists make Tempe their city of choice. A recent report by economist
Richard Florida titled Rise of the Creative Class shows that Tempe is a
thriving place for this new brand of workers to reside.
The highly diverse, artistic, urban and intelligent
setting that Tempe strives to maintain draws knowledge workers to this
community to live, work and play. Studies show that knowledge workers are
valuable to companies, and Tempe's preponderance of them is one more reason
to locate in this city. |
