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Spartanburg, South Carolina
Spartanburg County is a certified Work Ready Community that is actively engaged in maintaining their status.
Showing: Jan 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2025
Goals updated only for participating counties

Status History:
Certified: Jun 2015
Maintained 1: Apr 2021
Maintained 2: Jan 2022
Hover over the chart to see how they received their points.
Progress Towards Goals
Spartanburg is actively engaged in maintaining their status as a Work Ready Community. To do so, they must earn 5 points that prove their ongoing commitment to developing a thriving economy for employers and employees.
Traditional goals 3 Points
Maximum of 4 points possible
Current Goal - 1 points
Emerging Goal - 1 points
Transitioning Goal - 1 points
Optional goals 1 Points
Maximum of 3 points possible
Improved Certificates - 1 points
Spartanburg County in the News
ACT WorkKeys National Career Readiness Certificate [NCRC]
Workforce | Total NCRC |
Bronze NCRC |
Silver NCRC |
Gold NCRC |
Platinum NCRC |
NCRC Plus |
|
Emerging | High School | 10008 | 2589 | 5139 | 2056 | 224 | 321 |
College | 92 | 12 | 47 | 29 | + | 16 | |
Current | Private | 1340 | 317 | 740 | 244 | 39 | 328 |
Public | 786 | 243 | 463 | 70 | 10 | 147 | |
Transitioning | Adult Education | 1084 | 273 | 669 | 136 | 6 | 30 |
Unemployed | 3554 | 1069 | 1936 | 475 | 74 | 565 | |
Recent Veteran | 42 | + | 12 | 6 | 0 | + | |
Workforce category not identified | 1466 | 217 | 257 | 157 | 102 | 0 | |
Totals | 17618 | 4723 | 9263 | 3173 | 459 | 1411 |
Workforce | Total NCRC |
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Emerging | High School | 10008 | 2589 | 5139 | 2056 | 224 | 321 |
College | 92 | 12 | 47 | 29 | + | 16 | |
Current | Private | 1340 | 317 | 740 | 244 | 39 | 328 |
Public | 786 | 243 | 463 | 70 | 10 | 147 | |
Transitioning | Adult Education | 1084 | 273 | 669 | 136 | 6 | 30 |
Unemployed | 3554 | 1069 | 1936 | 475 | 74 | 565 | |
Recent Veteran | 42 | + | 12 | 6 | 0 | + | |
Workforce category not identified | 1466 | 217 | 257 | 157 | 102 | 0 | |
Totals | 17618 | 4723 | 9263 | 3173 | 459 | 1411 |
The table above is a detailed breakdown of the same ACT WorkKeys NCRC data presented in the upper right box on this page and represents ACT WorkKeys NCRCs earned or improved throughout the community. All ACT WorkKeys NCRC data is updated monthly.
+ Value less than 4
ACT WorkKeys NCRCs Earned
Showing: Jan 1, 2012 to Jun 30, 2025
Workforce | Goals | Actual NCRC |
---|---|---|
✓ Emerging | 2712 | 10437 |
✓
Current |
295 | 2601 |
✓ Transitioning | 3751 | 5258 |
Workforce category not identified | 733 | 733 |
Workforce | Total |
---|---|
Employers Supporting | 173 |
Improved ACT NCRC
To/From | Bronze | Silver | Gold | Platinum |
---|---|---|---|---|
Not Earned | 95 | 27 | 1 | 0 |
Bronze | 183 | 4 | 0 | |
Silver | 33 | 0 | ||
Gold | 5 |
Employers in Spartanburg County recognize or recommend the ACT WorkKeys NCRC
- Phillips Staffing
- Chapman Cultural Center
- Renfrow Brothers Inc
- American Services
- Carolina Cotton Works Inc.
- Rhodia
- Upstate Regional Education Center
- H. B. Swofford Career Center
- YouthStop
- Sealed Air / CRYOVAC
- Pro Physical Therapy
- Advance Auto Parts #5380
- Century Southern Inc.
- Lear Corporation
- Georgia-Pacific
- Wiza Guyz
- AMC Management Corp. dba McDonald's
- Woodruff-Roebuck Water District
Michelin North America
- Matrix Engineering Inc.
- Spartanburg Water
- Coca-Cola United
- Upstate Family Resource Center
- Spartanburg Regional Health Services
District Inc. - Gregory Electric Company Inc.
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