Research from Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce revealed out of 11.6 million jobs created in the post-recession economy, 11.5 million went to workers with at least some college education.

The report titled, “America’s Divided Recovery: College Have and Have Nots” revealed half of the jobs went to workers who held a bachelor’s degree or higher. Director of the Georgetown Center and lead author of the report explained that today’s society continues to “leave Americans without a college education behind.” He goes on to explain that over the course of the last few decades this split between the educated and non-educated has continued to grow.

This year, for the very first time, workers with a bachelor’s degree or higher are a larger proportion of the workforce than those with a high school diploma or less. HR experts explain that major drivers of change in the labor market are occupational and industry shifts. Production industries do not employ as many workers as they once did. On the flip side, healthcare, business and government services are accounting for a higher proportion of the workforce than ever before.

While it seems we have officially recovered from the recession and jobs are steadily coming back, not all new jobs are replacing jobs that were once lost. Many jobs that were lost during the recession included blue collar and clerical jobs, but human resource experts are reporting a surge of managerial and professional jobs. This further proves the change in the American workforce.