High school educated workers have all left.

[Blues Man]

This happened at the beginning of the third era. Let me back up a minute and explain. This happened to me in my campaign and I was unable to recover from it (hemorrhaging money, huge negative balance). So I decided to go to the sandbox and work through the era's. At the end of era two I had two rum factories, a cigar factory, and a textile mill (plus police stations,etc). All of them with maximum number of workers and set at the maximum pay. Housing upgraded the most I could for the second era. At the beginning of the third era I upgraded the rest of the housing.

So I'm not sure what happened. At the end of the second era everything was fine, all my factories were fine. Everybody seemed to be happy, I had a very high approval rating. It was like 89. Then shortly after the beginning of the third era all my high school workers were gone. Not only factory workers but police, dry dock workers, any buildings that had high school workers were empty.

So I added a second high school and tried to wait it out to see if everything would go and rebuild (like I did in the campaign). At the moment, some buildings are still empty, some have about a third of the maximum number of workers.

So I'm just wondering if anybody else has this problem and if there's a solution.

[BLÀde]

i have the same problem i couldn't figure out why this happens either. i just barely made it through mission 4.

[Matra]

I have two high schools both at capacity, trying to train enough workers for two rum factories, two police stations, and soldiers for the palace, two barracks, one fort, and two guard towers. Considering a population of 200-300, this doesn't seem like a lot to me, especially considering that if I ever get attacked, I'll be severely outnumbered anyway.

I manage to get the factories staffed by setting the pay to maximum. Police stations are understaffed, and every military building is empty.

[johnbecool]

i had the same problem, when, i transformed my constitution, opting for " visa required" from free immigration...
never thought the diplomed immigrants would leave...

[Blues Man]

Originally posted by johnbecool:

i had the same problem, when, i transformed my constitution, opting for " visa required" from free immigration...
never thought the diplomed immigrants would leave...

I haven't changed the constitution.

[danibw0i]

If u get little to no immigrants and keep expanding. If some workplace are missing workers, and u set the budget to max. Workers will leave other jobs to fill those max budget ones, so u will lack workers somewhere else. I usually always run Visa Program as immigration policy and be patient while waiting for my i.e 300 "not in labor force" tropicans to grow up and join the work force. But if I need workers badly, I just set it to open immigration, and it helps a lot. Also, when focusing more on industry than farms etc, u will have a high need for high school workers.

[Western Orthodoxy]

What i dislike about Tropico 5 is that the Highschool can only have 15 students. So you are going to have to build atleast 10 highschools for a population of about 500-700 to keep up with the education if you have alot of highschool jobs. Also pay your high school educated workers more so that they are willing to fill these jobs and actually go to school. Also make sure you have the Visa Program if you are relying on highschool workers.

[astrosoup]

Did you have any military conflicts? This happened to me after pirates invaded and killed all my soldiers. Being a soldier was the best paying job on the island (and required a HS education) so everyone else quit their jobs and enlisted.

[Abalister]

For me, I remember having this issue, and it was resolved with a college. I already had 2 libraries and 2 high schools, and I added a library BEFORE third era. It seems that all high school people will want to upgrade their skill at the College and then they will work in places like the high end industries and automated mines. Just a guess though, I never had that much of a problem with that to be honest.

[TheCapo]

This is so late after the fact and probably figured the problem out but has anyone used the HS upgrade in the modern era to help fill up the HS required jobs?

[Malaficus Shaikan]

Sounds like the classic: i got more buildings then people mistake.
Please go inside your almenac and look for open workspace's vs unemployment.
It is a good idea to do so regulary because having either to many unemployed or to many workshop will end in a cash problem.

My useall stratagy is focuing on getting alot of communist on my island.
There easy to control, large in numbers and dont mind totaltarion state(aka i dont have to give elections)
Also i highly advise having imigration on all the time.
A single highschool and collage will train the imigrands who then start working in my factories.

Also go into the politic's factions tab.(click on the word factions)
I found this a great way to keep track of my island population.

Pick the biggest factions.
Please them.
And you can get away with anything,

[TheCapo]

Idk why but as much money as industries make I feel like that just pisses off everyone I had 5-6 industrial sections and bringing in food so everyone is fed but then people left jobs, unemployment jumped so did homelessness then came tons of Rebels, soldiers began to quit and then finally military coups kicked in

[danibw0i]

Build more high schools and colleges + whichever upgrades reduces education time.

[TheCapo]

Yeah dani I had 2 of each with the upgrades and lost an election before I could see it work, with those upgrades do I need to still have a max budget to help my factories full up or can I have a cheaper budget?

[danibw0i]

It depends on the amount of educated workers on the island vs the amount of available high school and college jobs vs the amount of budget on the different jobs.

If you for example have 500 jobs that require high school educated workers but only 300 high school educated workers, then those 300 will take the jobs with the highest budget. If your short on educated workers, u need to either balance the budget to attract them where u want them or be strict on immigration and slowly educate your own citizens as they are born and grow up. This takes time.
High paying jobs which requires education, makes those jobs attractive to undeducated citizens making them go to school to get educated and then fill that job.
Just make sure your schools have teachers.

U don't necessarily need to max the budget completely, it depends on the budget level on the other jobs. If you've maxed out across everything and your economy is bleeding you dry then you need to "reboot" the economy, go through the almanac and check your budget expenses. Overhaul and re-adjust your budgets, bring them down a level or 2 accross the board, slowly but surely you will stabilize the economy and turn it around.

[Two Gun Bob]

Too many commies. You have to constantly weed them out while they are illiterate. identify them in the almanac and fire them arrest them set the inquisition against them, whatever you can before you move to a point where you need more educated workers than illiterate.

boost your capitalists as well.

In some cases you may be too late. Shutter your industries and add some more basic jobs, eliminate commies while they train up, and gradually re-open your industries.