Good news on the job market.
Ohio halts slide in high-tech jobs
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070425/BUSINESS06/704250413
By MARK REITER
BLADE BUSINESS WRITER
Ohio reversed a six-year decline in high-technology jobs and Michigan continued its slump, a new report shows. The nation, though, added 146,600 such jobs.
"We see a very positive trend in the country, and in Ohio," said Ed Longanecker, executive director of the nonprofit AeA, formerly the American Electronics Association, the country's largest technology trade association.
"After several years of job losses in the high-tech industry, Ohio is finally turning and adding jobs."
The state, according to the group's study of high-tech occupations monitored by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, had 1,200 more such jobs in 2005 than in the year before. But between 2000 and 2005, it had a net loss of 34,100 such jobs.
It had 152,407 such jobs, which paid on average $60,900 a year, compared with $36,800 for an average private-sector job, according to the study released yesterday.
Ohio halts slide in high-tech jobs
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070425/BUSINESS06/704250413
By MARK REITER
BLADE BUSINESS WRITER
Ohio reversed a six-year decline in high-technology jobs and Michigan continued its slump, a new report shows. The nation, though, added 146,600 such jobs.
"We see a very positive trend in the country, and in Ohio," said Ed Longanecker, executive director of the nonprofit AeA, formerly the American Electronics Association, the country's largest technology trade association.
"After several years of job losses in the high-tech industry, Ohio is finally turning and adding jobs."
The state, according to the group's study of high-tech occupations monitored by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, had 1,200 more such jobs in 2005 than in the year before. But between 2000 and 2005, it had a net loss of 34,100 such jobs.
It had 152,407 such jobs, which paid on average $60,900 a year, compared with $36,800 for an average private-sector job, according to the study released yesterday.