Business Facilities - October 2008 - (Page 40) LOCATIONS FOR THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND ELECTRONICS RESEARCH INDUSTRIES Information Technology: No Signs of a Slowdown When it comes to innovation and a talented workforce, these are the locations that merit a close look. By Donna Clapp T he information technology (IT) industry sector continued growing in 2007, adding 91,400 net jobs for a total of 5.9 million jobs in the U.S., according to the American Electronics Association (AeA), the nation’s largest high-tech trade association. The AeA recently released its 11th annual Cyberstates report detailing national and state trends in high-tech employment, wages, and other key economic factors for all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. The report, Cyberstates 2008: A Complete State-by-State Overview of the High-Technology Industry, shows that the 2007 gains (1.6%) are on top of job gains of 139,000 in 2006 and 87,400 in 2005. Cyberstates 2008 is based on U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data. “While we are certainly pleased to report that the technology industry added jobs nationally and across nearly every state, national tech growth slowed in 2007, making the story good but not great,” says Christopher Hansen, president and CEO of AeA. “Tech jobs make critical contributions to the U.S. economy in terms of innovation, and pay extremely well—the average tech industry wage is 87 percent higher than the average private sector wage. In 47 cyberstates the average hightech wage is at least 50 percent higher than the average private sector wage, and in four cyberstates this differential is more than 100 percent. While these are the types of jobs every state wants to attract, the labor market remains tight, with unemployment rates below two percent across many tech occupations.” An examination of the sectors reveals that software services added 82,600 jobs in 2007, up for the fourth year in a row. Engineering and tech services added A S P E C I A L A D V E RT I S I N G S E C T I O N O F B U S I N E S S FA C I L I T I E S 40 PHOTO CREDIT: JUPITERIMAGES CORPORATION
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