US / Tech sector adds 103,000 jobs from January through June 2013

A report issued by the TechAmerica Foundation analyzed the U.S. tech job market in the first half of the year and found a modest bump of 103,000 jobs from January through June 2013.

The report comes fast on the heels of freshly sparked discussion about the STEM crisis or whether there’s a domestic shortfall in expertise for science, technology, engineering, and math.

According to the report, industry growth for 2013 is so far slightly slower than the previous year: 1.7 percent growth for the first half of the year, as opposed to 1.8 percent for the previous year. But the labor market has on the whole been steadily adding tech jobs, year over year, since 2011.

Tech jobs in the United States are classified in four basic ways: manufacturing, communications, software, and engineering. The biggest growth was in the last two categories, with software adding 40,000 jobs to come in at 1.986 million and engineering adding 51,400 to add up to 1.697 million.

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