[jsfg_cinti] IT Employment Reaches Record High In U.S.

Dear JSFG Folks,

Here is good news for IT pros. 

Regards,
Lance Feldman

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http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=185303797

IT Employment Reaches Record High In U.S.
By Eric Chabrow
InformationWeek
Apr 18, 2006 04:24 PM

More Americans are employed in IT than at any time in
the nation's history.

IT employment in the United States reached a record
high of 3.472 million workers in the 12 months ended
March 31, surpassing the 3.455 million IT workers
employed the previous quarter and at the end of third
quarter 2001, the zenith of the dot-com boom,
according to an InformationWeek analysis of Bureau of
Labor Statistics data.

The IT labor force--employed and unemployed infotech
professionals--stood at 3.56 million at the end of the
first quarter, the highest number since the end of
2001, when some 3.574 million people called themselves
IT pros.

In the past quarter, the IT unemployment rate stood at
2.5%, the lowest level since the end of 2000, when the
IT jobless rate held at 2.2%. At the end of first
quarter 2005, 3.7% of IT pros found themselves out of
work.

With the recession of the early 2000s a distant
memory, corporate confidence has returned and
companies are investing in IT, including tech
payrolls, in order to grow their businesses. 

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