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Cyberstates 2011 Key National Findings
(National employment data is for 2010; national wage data is for 2010)
- U.S. high-tech employment totaled 5.75 million in 2010.
- Tech employment was down in 2010 by 115,800, or by 2.0 percent.
- High-tech manufacturing employment fell by 4.2 percent, losing 53,600 jobs between 2009 and 2010.
- All nine tech manufacturing sectors lost jobs between 2009 and 2010.
- The communications services sector lost 72,100 jobs in 2010, or 5.5 percent.
- The software services sector added 22,800 jobs in 2010, a 1.4 percent increase.
- The engineering and tech services sector lost 12,900 jobs in 2010, a 0.8 percent decline.
- The following key occupation categories: engineering managers, computer hardware engineers, database administrators, and aerospace engineers, all managed to keep unemployment below five percent.
- The tech industry paid an annual average wage of $86,800 in 2010, 93 percent more than the average private sector wage of $45,000.
Note: Data are rounded.
Cyberstates 2010 Key State Findings
(All state data is for 2010)
- The leading states by high-tech employment in 2010 were California (931,000), Texas (456,500), New York (294,700), Virginia (277,600), and Florida (267,500).
- Michigan led the nation in net tech job creation in 2010, adding 2,700 jobs. The next largest gains occurred in the District of Columbia (+1,400), West Virginia (+400), Utah (+400), and South Carolina (+300).
- For the sixth straight year, Virginia led the nation in concentration of high-tech workers in 2010, with 98 high-tech workers per 1,000 private sector workers.
Forty-nine cyberstates have annual average high-tech wages that are more than 50 percent higher than the average private sector wage in their respective state, and seven cyberstates have wages that are 100 percent higher.
Note: Data are rounded.
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Posted by: Jason Langsner on December 20th, 2010.
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