Meta Louisiana Richland Campus

Monroe's economy combines CenturyLink/Lumen's legacy headquarters footprint, telecommunications, healthcare, and agriculture. The metro is a small specialized telecom market. Data centers serve those enterprise tenants — one tracked facility and roughly 50 NAICS 518 jobs (estimated). The metro is a very small data center market.

The trades pool is tiny. Electricians at $60,940 and HVAC technicians at $57,270 sit close in median, reflecting Louisiana's compressed wage structure with modest above-national positioning. The 1,200 maintenance workforce earns $46,140. Network admins clear $88,990, modest but appropriate for the metro size.

For a trades worker, Monroe is a small low-cost market with limited data center opportunity. Best fit for HVAC technicians and maintenance workers serving the broader telecom and healthcare commercial base. The pure data center footprint is minimal.