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Meeting Date: May 27, 2025

Workforce Development

Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
2024 Annual Report to Commission
May 27, 2025

Who We Are

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Our Commitments
Century Agenda Objective 15: Advance regional workforce
development in port-related industries by providing equitable
access to quality careers

Since 2019, the Port has invested almost $17M

in regional workforce development in the maritime,
construction, and aviation industries and the green jobs in
each of those industries.

1,200+

3,000+

People trained in high-demand,
living-wage careers like General
Carpenter pre-apprenticeship,
Aviation Maintenance Technician,
and Advanced Logistics.

Job seekers and employees at SEA
Airport received job readiness and
career advancement training like
Homeland Security, food handlers,
Microsoft Office, and badge training.

8,500+
People were employed at the airport
and in port-related industries thanks
to Port investments from
2019 to 2024.
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Building Maritime Career Awareness

Port
Commission
seeds
Maritime High
School

Port hires
Maritime HS
Interns

Maritime HS
Interns
develop
videos with
help from HR
and Marine
Maintenance

Port shares
these videos
with schools
throughout
the region

WFD & WABS
incorporate
videos in after
school
STEM4GOOD
throughout
region/state

Goal: more
youth
entering
maritime
education and
careers

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2024 Workforce Development Highlights
Top 5 ZIP Codes
SeaTac/Tukwila
98188

18%

Des Moines
98198

9%

Federal Way
98003

8%

Burien
98168
Kent
98032

98168

98188
98198
98032

6%
98003

6%

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Progress Toward Commitments
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$3.6 million invested in workforce development in port-related industries

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Wage at employment: $20.65 at SEA, $21.09 in maritime internships, and $32.67 in construction

•

89% served were Black, Indigenous, or People of Color - 83% increase from last year
Job, Apprenticeship, and Internship Placements

Job Training Completions

2,500

1,400
2,069

1,215

1,200

2,000

1,050
1,000

1,500

1,515
1,312

800

1,304

688

600

1,000

400
500

380

200
0

0
2021

2022

2023

2024

2021

2022

2023

2024

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Plans Underway
Shift from Jobs to Careers
Continue
- Strong partnerships within the Port, with other public agencies, and community partners
- Breadth of services from career awareness building to training to career advancement
- Equitable outcomes for near-Port, structurally excluded communities
- Workforce upskilling (e.g., Aviation Maintenance Tech, Construction Leadership Training, etc.)
Grow
- Strengthen our internal contracting infrastructure
- Strategic investments to provide more tailored services, partner with more employers and plan
for jobs of the future
- Build on commitments like Duwamish Community Benefits, Priority Hire, Muckleshoot and
Suquamish

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Plans Underway
Strategic Investments to
Deliver on Outcomes
 Strengthen internal systems
 Economic impact tracking
 Return on investment tracking
 Partner onboarding
 Standardized reporting
 Site monitoring
 Standardized report templates
 Contract procedures

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Port Jobs ($1.6M)

Aviation Sector

 Working with communities to build aviation career pathways
 1,202 people placed in jobs and 867 training completions
 130 asylum seekers served
•

South Seattle College ($121K)
 Introduction to Aviation Maintenance Technician (AMT)
o 21 AMT Intro graduates (84% completed)
 Ground Support Equipment Mechanic (GSE) training launched!
o 10 GSE student graduates (83% completed)

What's Next:
•

Childcare Navigator (Amendment signed May 2025)

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Taxi Driver Employment Navigator (Launches July 2025)

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Aviation Security Training Pathway (Solicitation Summer 2025)
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Building the Construction Pathway

Priority Hire
Policy
Developed

PLA Goals:
Preferred Entry/
Apprenticeship

OEDI Funds
PreApprenticeship

OEDI
Funds
Community
PreApprentic
Outreach
eship

Hires on Port
Construction
Projects

Goals: More Diverse
Near-Port
Community
Members in Living
Wage Careers

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•

ANEW ($292K)

Construction Sector

 63 graduates, 14 placements
•

Urban League/PACT Program ($324K)
 75 graduates, 35 placements

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Northwest Carpenter's Institute ($92K, ended 2024)
 11 graduates, 11 placements

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Ironworkers - Partnership with City of Seattle ($100K,
ended 2024)
 14 graduates, 12 placements

What's Next:
• ANEW Leadership Development Program ($62K)
 9 journeypersons and apprentices enrolled
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Maritime Sector
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Sea Scouts ($5K)
 First-ever cruise aboard the Propeller with YMCL interns

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Core Plus Maritime ($50K)
 STCW curriculum development for high schools

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Washington Maritime Blue/Urban League ($692K)
 33 Youth Maritime Career Launch enrollees, 24 placed into internships

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Maritime High School ($250K)
 134 students were enrolled, a 10% increase from 2023

What's Next:
•

Revamp Youth Maritime Career Launch
 Enhance underway and shoreside training, strengthen employer
involvement, and serve more people, including adults, to strengthen
pathways to onshore and at-sea careers.
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Green Jobs
•

Coalition for Climate Careers
 Green Jobs Green Futures Summit

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Dirt Corps ($743K, 4 years)
 Duwamish Valley Green Jobs Program ended in 2024
 44 youth and 43 adults served

What's Next:
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Duwamish Valley Career Navigator ($480K, 3 years)
 Increase access for Duwamish Valley residents to:
o Tailored career services
o Existing green job training programs
o Port-related careers for Duwamish Valley job seekers

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Thank you to our 2024 partners!

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