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Tech jobs remain as concentrated in the same big eight US tech hubs as they have been for several years, despite the high cost of housing and labor in these metros. Furthermore, these big eight hubs are tightening their grip: Higher-salary technology occupations are becoming increasingly concentrated, while lower-salary technology jobs are dispersing slightly to the rest of the country. In this sense, the US technology jobs landscape is becoming more unequal—yet another example of how the country is becoming increasingly differentiated and polarized.
The big eight tech hubs are not replicas of each other—labor markets differ among them significantly. Indeed’s job postings in the first half of 2017 reveal that San Francisco and Seattle, more than any other US metros, share the Silicon Valley pattern of plentiful high-paying and newly emerging tech jobs—cutting-edge occupations like computer vision engineer and machine learning engineer. Seattle is the tech hub with the fastest growth rate in tech-job openings. Two additional hubs, Boston and Austin, have tech-job mixes similar to Silicon Valley’s, but, unlike Seattle, they are not gaining tech-job share. Rounding out the big eight, tech jobs in Washington, DC, Baltimore and Raleigh are more traditional and offer lower salaries, making these metros less like Silicon Valley than their fellow tech hubs.
Outside the big eight, three metros—Boulder, CO, San Diego, and Provo-Orem, UT—have tech occupation mixes that resemble Silicon Valley’s as well as growing shares of tech jobs. But, in these emerging tech metros, tech jobs have smaller footprints than in the eight big hubs. Despite that, they are among Silicon Valley’s closest cousins, offering opportunities for tech workers looking for a change of pace from the big hubs and for companies that want to locate in hot tech markets.
TFA is a marketing piece for Indeed.com, but it's an opportunity to weigh the merits of the different areas or propose new ones. Which areas do Soylentils prefer, and why? Are there places in the US or elsewhere that would make great tech hubs? Santa Fe, NM, for one, would be lovely.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @06:49AM (3 children)
I'd rather be cold than hot, and air conditioning is expensive even if you live in an energy-efficient home. I can turn the heat way down in the winter, but being hot is intolerable to me. Alaska would indeed be preferable.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 30 2017, @02:44PM (2 children)
Being coastal, it's not actually that hot due to lake effect/fairly constant ocean breeze. When it is, indeed, too hot then there's the aforementioned AC.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Sunday July 30 2017, @06:27PM (1 child)
I was thinking the same thing. If he thinks that's hot. He should come to Kentucky in the summer.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday July 31 2017, @04:33AM
I'm going to Kentucky this summer. :-/