CALIFORNIA BUSINESS MINUTE
Best Cities for Tech Jobs
11-29-11
Hi, I am Tim Johnson and welcome to the California Business Minute.
If you are looking for a tech job, the Silicon Valley may not be the first
location to look. While the Valley remains at the pinnacle for venture capital
and innovation, it hasn’t consistently generated tech employment.
Forbes magazine has a newly released list ranking the nation’s 51 largest metro
areas for high tech employment. Californian Joel Kotkin a contributor to the
publication in concert with the praxis Strategy Group formatted the data collected
by the economic modeling from the firm EMSI.
TOP TEN BEST CITIES FOR HIGH TECH JOBS IN THE NATION
1. Seattle, WA
2. Baltimore, MD
3. Columbus, OH
4. Raleigh, NC
5. Salt Lake City, UT
6. Jacksonville, FL
7. Washington DC
8. New Orleans, LA
9. San Bernardino-Riverside
10. San Diego
Other California cities ranked included San Jose at 17; San Francisco at 29;
Sacramento at 43 and Los Angeles at 48.
According to the Forbes review, it identified a little known fact that, even
with the recent last dot-com craze sparking over 5% growth over the past two
years, the Silicon Valley remains the `biggest loser' among the nation’s tech
regions, surrendering roughly one quarter of its high-tech jobs -- about 80,000
-- in the past decade. According to the magazine, only New York City lost more
technology jobs over the same span.
I am Tim Johnson and this has been the California Business Minute.
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