According to data from Burning Glass Technologies, more than 13 STEM jobs were posted online for each one unemployed STEM worker in 2016. That equates to approximately 3 million more jobs than the number of trained professionals available to fill them.
A report from Deloitte and the Manufacturing Institute echos that figure in its “2018 Skills Gap Study,” showing that 2.4 million engineering jobs will likely go unfilled over the next decade.