Of the 35,030 human services professionals employed in Michigan, 1,050 work in Ironwood. There has been a 64% growth in the number of human services professionals in Ironwood between the years 2006 and 2010. As the employment for human services professionals in Ironwood has increased, overall employment in Ironwood has also increased.

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• Light Blue: Human Services in Ironwood
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As the number of human services professionals in Ironwood has grown, salaries for human services professionals have decreased. In 2010 human services professionals in Ironwood reportedly earned an average salary of $39,166 per year. Human services professionals in Ironwood made a yearly average salary of $40,628, four years earlier in 2006. The decline in the salary of human services professionals in Ironwood is slower than the salary trend for all careers in the city.

Human services professionals in Ironwood earn a median salary of $35,636 per year. The 10% of human services professionals in the lowest pay bracket earn less than $26,260 per year, while those in the highest pay bracket earn approximately 118% higher salaries.

On average human services professional salaries in Ironwood are lower than salaries earned by their professional counterparts in related professions.

There is only one accredited human services school in the city. Many of Ironwood's human services professionals are graduates of this school.

Ironwood's human services school offers one human services degree and certificate program.

In 2010 approximately 2 students graduated from human services courses.