After four years of steady growth, the high-tech industry lost 245,600
jobs in 2009, or 4 percent of its workforce, according to the
Cyberstates report
released today by TechAmerica.
Engineering and tech services
jobs suffered the biggest blow, losing 59,000 jobs. Communications
services shed 53,000 jobs. Software services lost 20,700 jobs.
Some states did manage to add tech jobs in 2008, however. California, Texas, Washington, Massachusetts and Virginia added the most. Virginia had the highest concentration of tech workers for the fourth straight year.
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