Nice to see a positive article once in a while amid all the scary news about oil prices and real estate troubles in the rest of the country. Will be interesting to see if Seattle manages to maintain it’s relatively soft landing while national prices appear to be bumping along the bottom (and likely to do so for at least another year).
Now for the good news:
The Seattle area added the greatest number of high-tech jobs in 2006, outpacing Boston, San Francisco and more than 50 other U.S. cities, according to the Cybercities report from the American Electronics Association.
The report, released Tuesday, is another indication that the high-tech economy in the Seattle area continues to purr as companies such as Microsoft, Google, Amazon.com and dozens of startup enterprises add new workers. (The P-I recently reported on Microsoft’s record employment growth, with 38,856 workers in the Puget Sound region and 89,809 worldwide as of May 31.)
See the full summary in the PI here.
Wait till MSFT brings many senior Yahoo people up to MSFT headquarters. This will only make Seattle an even stronger tech city.
the report is for the year 2006. That’s like 2 years old. So what’s the big deal about celebrating it now??? What is it that I’m missing here?
Thanks Simon. The data is from 2006 but the report was only released last month. Even though the data is old, the relative difference between cities is what’s interesting.
Bye bye Sonics. Losing the Sonics also means less business and loss of jobs in the lower Queen Anne area, and one less reason to buy in downtown Seattle.