RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – North Carolina’s high-tech sector continues to produce jobs as well as new companies – and at one of the highest rates in the country.
So says a report from technology association CompTIA.
“North Carolina added the fourth largest number of technology jobs in 2021 among all states,” CompTIA says.
New data from the N.C. Technology Association certainly reflects that trend with high-tech job openings soaring to record highs this year.
Its “State of the Tech Workforce” found:
- North Carolina added 864 new tech business establishments in 2021, the eighth largest total nationally.
- There are now an estimated 17,261 tech businesses in the state, with many of these companies categorized as small businesses under the Small Business Administration’s definition of up to 500 employees.
- The tech sector has an estimated direct economic impact of $44.7 billion, or 8.1% of the total state economy.
- Net tech employment in North Carolina grew by 5,004 positions last year.
- More than 274,000 people work in core tech-related occupations with hundreds of thousands more
employed as digital knowledge workers.
Read more at: https://www.cyberstates.org/
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