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Couldn't dig up more recent data[0], but tech job growth in absolute numbers, from 2014 -> 2015: San Francisco: +21% 59,600 -> 72,200 Silicon Valley: +7.2% 22
by 11thEarlOfMar 10y ago
Couldn't dig up more recent data[0], but tech job growth in absolute numbers, from 2014 -> 2015:
San Francisco: +21% 59,600 -> 72,200
Silicon Valley: +7.2% 229,200 -> 245,800
Oakland/East-Bay: +11.8% 50,600 ->56,600
SF Mid-Peninsula: +5.0% 45,600 -> 47,900
Boston: +3.1% 149,700 -> 156,000
Austin: +7.8% 74,400 -> 80,200
[0] page 4: http://www.us.jll.com/united-states/en-us/Research/US-Tech-Employment-Trends-2016-JLL.pdf http://www.us.jll.com/united-states/en-us/Research/US-Tech-E...
Edit: Added Mid-Peninsula and East Bay to complete SF Bay Area. Total Bay Area Tech Jobs in 2015: 444,500
Edit 2: Corrected typo, as pointed out, my bad. SF 72,200
- kyleschiller 10y agoThanks for the hard data. I'm a bit confused because the study counts SF, Silicon Valley and SF Mid-Peninsula without defining them well, and there's no mention of South Bay at all, unless that's what they're referring to as SV. EDIT: It doesn't seem like SV is being used as an aggregate term, since there's more absolute growth happening in SF and SF Mid-Peninsula than in SV. EDIT2: Unless I'm terrible at reading charts and tables, it looks a lot like San Francisco hit 72,205 in 2015, not 76,200.
- 11thEarlOfMar 10y agoTypo on my part, thanks for pointing it out, corrected.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoWow. So Boston only had 7% of the tech job-growth in 2015. That explains a lot.
- AnimalMuppet 10y agoIf I understand correctly, you misread that. (Alternately, I misread it.) I think it said that Boston had 7% year-on-year growth of tech jobs, not that Boston had 7% of the country's tech job growth.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoI checked the report and read the chart for 2015 job growth, absolute numbers, then normalized the Boston portion.