From DICE, April 8, 2009...
For what it’s worth, the trade association TechAmerica says tech-sector employment went up, not down, by a total of 77,000 jobs in 2008. Says CIO magazine:
The total headcount for 2008? Just under six million American tech workers, up from 5.8 million in 2007. Contrary to the widespread presumption that the tech sector is shedding jobs almost as fast as General Motors, TechAmerica’s report says job losses in high-tech manufacturing and communications services (PR and marketing) were more than offset by gains in engineering and technical services. In particular, software services jobs jumped more than five percent, to a total of 1.7 million.
The TechAmerica Cyberstates 2009 report found tech jobs are no longer restricted to Silicon Valley. In 2008’s state-by-state comparison, the largest number of new jobs - 14,700 -were added in Texas. The state with the fastest growth, at 8.1 percent, was Kansas. Virginia led the nation with the highest concentration of tech workers - 92 of every 1,000 private-sector workers in the state were employed in the tech industry. Virginia was followed by Massachusetts and Colorado.
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