Va., Md. still hot spots for tech sector

Virginia lined up fifth in the nation for its prosperous saving in technology, whereas Maryland lined up 13th and Washington, C.C, entered to number 36 on the annual report of Cyberstates de TechAmerica, which detects the national and the state tends in the use of technology, the wages and other economic factors.

The industry of the technology of Virginia added 5.300 work, an increase in use of 2 percent to reach a total of 276.100 of 2007, the most recent year of the available data of the states.

The greatest sector of technology in Virginia is the computing systems conceive and of the relative services. That the sector employs 126.400 people, and is developed by 7.400 work in 2007. Virginia lined up in the second place in the nation in the total number of the people working for companies of design of computing systems. California lined up initially.

The manufacturing industry of technology in Virginia added 400 work and the sector of software publishers added 200 work in 2007.

But the sectors of not all Commonwealth developed in 2007. Virginia lost 1.300 work in departments of communication, 1.000 in services of technology and 300 in the research and development and test laboratories during the year.

Nevertheless, Virginia lined up in the five principal ones for the growth of work of technology during a fourth consecutive year.

Virginia is �pitom� of an example of success of point,� said the bond of Phillip, chair of TechAmerica, which is the organization created by the fusion of the AEA from organizations of industry of technology and the association of technology information of America. Virginia has �uniformly asserted one of the populations of use of point more with rapid growth in the country,� it said.

Maryland added 77 work of technology during the 2007 while the C.C threw 3.000, or almost 8 percent, of its work of technology for a total of 32.500 of 2007.

The greatest sector of growth of the work of Maryland was the computing systems conceive and the relative services, which added 1.200 work. The services of technology explained an increase in 100 work. Maryland lost a total of 1.600 work of research and development and test laboratories, the departments of communication and the sector of defense electronics.

Sector of loss of work of S of the 'larger C.C was research and development and sector of laboratories of tests, which threw 2.900 work.

Together, the area of C.C represents one of the geographies most strongly concentrated workmen of technology in the country.

Virginia represents the highest concentration of the workmen of technology in any state with 9.2 percent of its labour of private sector employed in industry. And the employees of technology in Virginia gain almost twice as much as average work of private sector there.

Maryland, which lines up fifth for the concentration of the workmen of technology, employs approximately one its labour of private sector of 8 percent at the companies of technology. These employees gain average wages of $84.400, or 82 percent more than the average wages of the private sector of Maryland. The state lines up 10th for wages.

And in the zone, which lined up sixth for the concentration of the workmen of technology, a labour of private sector of 7.3 percent is employed in the industry of technology. These employees of technology gain average wages of $89.300, or 29 percent more than the average wages of private sector there. The C.C lines up 7th for wages.

Technology is critical with the economy of the area of national capital,� in slavery known as. �The federal expenditure of stimulus, which includes a significant hearth on investments of technology, will help to amplify the growth and job creation in the economy of the technology of the area.

A breakdown of the national data for the fourth quarters of 2008 also shows the total impact strength of the industry of technology compared with the remainder of the US economy In the current reduction. While the total use of private sector fell by 1.3 percent, the whole industry of technology supported only one fall of 0.6 percent, or 38.000 work, in employment for the quarter.