2023 Competitiveness Redbook 2023 | Page 26

Source : CompTIA : Cyberstates 2021 Report TABLE 19
High Tech Employment and Wages ( 2021 )
Net Tech
Share of Total
Median
Rank
Employment
Employment Rank
Wage $
Rank
1 California
1,411,447
7.8 %
5 $ 116,729
2
2 Texas
790,981
5.9 %
14
$ 91,885
15
3 New York
506,529
5.5 %
16
$ 98,956
9
4 Florida
446,266
4.8 %
24
$ 79,397
31
5 Virginia
351,449
8.7 %
2 $ 105,412
4
6 Washington
333,391
9.4 %
1 $ 124,653
1
7 Illinois
318,662
5.4 %
19
$ 93,724
13
8 Massachuesetts
307,926
8.6 %
3 $ 105,721
3
9 Pennsylvania
285,376
4.8 %
24
$ 85,900
20
10 Georgia
281,666
6.0 %
13
$ 92,001
14
11 North Carolina
274,167
5.8 %
15
$ 89,449
18
12 Ohio
252,910
4.6 %
27
$ 83,248
22
13 New Jersey
251,437
6.2 %
10 $ 104,692
6
14 Colorado
236,158
8.3 %
4
$ 99,300
7
15 Maryland
211,435
7.8 %
5 $ 105,280
5
16 Arizona
192,768
6.2 %
10
$ 86,201
19
17 Michigan
190,133
4.4 %
29
$ 81,122
27
18 Minnesota
181,825
6.2 %
10
$ 94,715
11
19 Missouri
153,517
5.3 %
20
$ 80,852
29
20 Wisconsin
137,887
4.7 %
26
$ 80,041
30
21 Oregon
127,790
6.3 %
9
$ 90,639
17
22 Tennessee
116,384
3.6 %
35
$ 75,065
37
23 Utah
113,646
6.9 %
8
$ 82,534
24
24 Indiana
112,567
3.6 %
35
$ 76,254
35
25 Connecticut
92,420
5.5 %
16
$ 95,971
10
26 Alabama
83,860
4.1 %
31
$ 82,811
23
27 South Carolina
81,755
3.7 %
34
$ 73,885
39
28 Kansas
65,750
4.6 %
27
$ 74,262
38
29 Iowa
65,613
4.1 %
31
$ 81,898
26
30 Kentucky
64,672
3.3 %
38
$ 71,743
42
31 Oklahoma
56,315
3.3 %
39
$ 73,140
40
32 New Hampshire
54,284
7.8 %
5
$ 94,358
12
33 Nebraska
50,330
4.9 %
23
$ 81,095
28
34 Louisiana
45,705
2.4 %
47
$ 69,617
45
35 Nevada
43,978
3.2 %
41
$ 75,964
36
36 Arkansas
38,826
3.0 %
44
$ 71,712
43
37 Idaho
36,696
4.3 %
30
$ 72,775
41
38 New Mexico
32,667
3.9 %
33
$ 76,851
34
39 Mississippi
27,124
2.3 %
48
$ 66,397
49
40 Rhode Island
26,635
5.5 %
16
$ 90,765
16
41 Maine
23,275
3.5 %
37
$ 78,318
32
42 Delaware
23,191
5.1 %
21
$ 99,067
8
43 West Virginia
19,426
2.8 %
46
$ 69,467
46
44 Hawaii
18,791
3.1 %
42
$ 81,625
26
45 Vermont
15,961
5.0 %
22
$ 76,943
33
46 Montana
15,388
2.9 %
45
$ 67,293
47
47 South Dakota
15,228
3.3 %
38
$ 67,233
48
48 North Dakota
12,264
2.0 %
50
$ 71,429
44
49 Alaska
10,011
3.1 %
42
$ 85,061
21
50 Wyoming
5,937
2.1 %
49
$ 64,075
50
Dist . of Columbia
67,454
9.2 %
$ 117,329
United States
8,679,198
5.7 %
$ 94,058
In 2021 Washington moved from second to first in high-tech industries ’ share of total employment and continued to rank first in median high-tech wage .