Dec. 22—Detroit, Michigan, didn’t make the list. Nor did Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, or Los Angeles, California, or scores of other well-known cities.
But Dalton came in at 47 on SmartAsset’s 2021 list of the 50 top places in the United States to work in manufacturing.
“That’s great,” said Dalton resident Rebecca McKinney.
McKinney said she works at a local restaurant but much of her family works for local manufacturing companies.
“My dad and my brother work for Shaw Industries,” she said. “I’ve got an uncle and aunts and cousins who work for a number of different carpet companies.”
Based in New York City, SmartAsset’s website (smartasset.com) said it publishes “educational tools to help people navigate life’s big personal finance decisions,” including advice on retirement, taxes, investing and places to live.
The website said the company’s list of best places to work in manufacturing is based on an index that includes factors such as three-year and one-year manufacturing job growth, three-year and one-year growth in manufacturing wages, housing costs and the unemployment rate.
This is the second straight year that Dalton has made the list. Before 2020, SmartAsset only listed the top 25 places to work in manufacturing.
“This once again points out our No. 1 asset here, which is that we are a manufacturing community,” said Dalton Mayor David Pennington. “We’ve got a great utility, Dalton Utilities, which is very competitive. We are on I-75. We’ve got two railroads. That all helps…
