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Cyberstates 2011: The Definitive State-by-State Analysis of the U.S. High-Tech Industry

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TechAmerica Foundation’s 14^th annual Cyberstates report details national and state trends in high-tech employment, wages, and other key economic factors. The report, Cyberstates 2011: The Definitive State-by-State Analysis of the U.S. High-Tech Industry covers all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

The U.S. high-tech industry lost 115,800 net jobs in 2010, for a total of 5.75 million workers.  This two percent decline in tech industry employment was less than half of the 249,500 jobs lost in 2009, which followed several years of sustained growth.  Over the longer term of 2007 to 2010 – the span of the economic downturn – the tech industry fared better then the private sector as a whole, with a four percent decline in employment versus a seven percent decline in the private sector.

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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