City of Ithaca

This book is meant to provide children with a glimpse of Ithaca, New York. It displays different kinds of jobs that can be found in the Ithaca community!

The Ithaca economy is driven by…

• education
• manufacturing
• high-tech
• health care
• retail
• tourism/hospitality.

Jobs within the education field are early childhood care, K-12 educators, high education (undergraduate and graduate).

Manufacturing Jobs within Ithaca are production/general labor, and manufacturing engineers.

Major industries in Ithaca include agriculture, dairy farming, and business machine manufacturing.

• Agriculture represents a $90 million export industry that makes a significant contribution to the local economy.

Healthcare jobs could be, home health aid, nurse, doctor, therapist, and dental hygienist etc.

Retail jobs are locally owned shops, college campus book stores, cashier, sales representatives.

Tourism/hospitality jobs would be hotel manager, any type of team member, general managers within a restaurant, brand ambassador.

The lakes, gorges, bed and breakfast inns, and wineries attract visitors from many parts of the world.