Seattle area still gaining tech jobs even as hubs grow elsewhere
Though tech hubs are sprouting up around the country as the industry decentralizes and remote work gains traction, a new report finds that "superstar" cities such as Seattle are still accumulating a larger share of tech jobs.
The report from Mark Muro, a senior fellow from the Brookings Institution, says "rising star" cities like Nashville, Philadelphia and Chapel Hill, North Carolina, experienced accelerated tech growth in 2020 and contributed to "unmistakable shifts" in the industry's geography. But Muro's research also pointed to another trend in tech: it's spreading, not moving.
Superstar metros like Seattle, San Francisco and San Jose, which had unstoppable tech growth during the late 2010s, not only didn't lose tech jobs, they "increased their aggregate share of the sector’s total nationwide employment by 0.3%," according to the report.
The report analyzed data from Emsi Burning Glass, a labor market analytics firm.
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