1. Physical therapist assistant - 155.8% growth by 2024; average pay is $56,870

Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development reported there were 145,568 job openings advertised online for 104,990 job seekers in December 2019. Hamilton County was among the top 10 counties in the state for the number of openings.

Most counties in Southeast Tennessee are projected to grow slower than the average for all of Tennessee from 2018 to 2040

The biggest companies headquartered in the Chattanooga area with annual revenues last year near or more than $1 billion included:

Based on student enrollment in the current 2020 school year, less than half of the biggest 4-year colleges in the Chattanooga region grew student enrollment this year compared with last year.

The median annual wage in Tennessee in 2018 for the nearly 3 million employed Tennesseans was $34,895. Among the 22 major occupational groups in Tennessee, the biggest five all paid below the statewide average:

1. Erlanger Medical Center - 545 beds*

The Chattanooga real estate agencies with the most sales in 2018 were:

Here's a list of the five largest law firms in Chattanooga, based upon the number of practicing attorneys.

Chief executive compensation for Chattanooga's publicly traded companies in 2018.

The ten largest employers in Chattanooga are ...

The largest U.S. nursing home chains, ranked by the number of facilities, are:

The greatest racial diversity in the Chattanooga region is in the two biggest counties — Hamilton in Tennessee and Whitfield in Georgia.

The biggest registered investment advisory firms headquartered in Chattanooga include:

The biggest real estate sales of 2018 in the Chattanooga area:

Biggest business investments in 2018:

The cheapest metro cities to start a business with five full-time employees in a 1,000-square-foot office are:

A list of 15 of the oldest companies in Chattanooga:

A century after Collegedale was founded as the site of Southern Adventist University (then Southern Junior College) in 1916, the college town has grown into one of the fastest growing cities in Tennessee.

In the 12 months ending June 30, most of the top-dollar property sales in Hamilton County involved the sale of major apartment complexes and commercial developments.

Based upon student enrollment in 2018, the biggest colleges in Tennessee are:

Among the top five publicly traded companies headquartered in the Chattanooga and North Georgia region, three of the CEOs got a pay raise last year and two took pay cuts in 2017 compared with their total compensation in 2016.

1. 2018 Ironman Chattanooga.