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Report: Which Cities Lead in Tech Skills and Jobs
Why this matters
The report ranks cities by how many workers have these important skills and which places are gaining tech jobs quickly. This helps city leaders understand if their workforce can compete for future tech jobs. The study shows which cities are leading, which are rising, and which might fall behind in the tech economy.
Overview
The Burning Glass Institute and Wall Street Journal studied which American cities have the best tech workers and skills. They looked at over 65 million worker profiles to find 'Frontier Skills' - new tech abilities that pay well and are growing fast. The report ranks cities by how many workers have these important skills and which places are gaining tech jobs quickly. This helps city leaders understand if their workforce can compete for future tech jobs. Cities with more frontier skills and growing tech employment are better positioned for economic success. The study shows which cities are leading, which are rising, and which might fall behind in the tech economy. This research helps communities plan workforce development and economic strategies.
{"full_text":"Cities on the Tech Frontier — The Burning Glass Institute \n\n 0 \n\nCities on the Tech Frontier\n\nIn October 2023, the Burning Glass Institute worked with the Wall Street Journal to publish a report comparing the tech skills in the workforces of America’s cities. Traditionally, a sector’s regional competitiveness has been measured solely by the size and projected growth of the industry’s workforce with little effort made to capture the quality of the workforce.
Skills are the yardstick of competitiveness in the human economy. Even a large or growing workforce can be at risk of falling behind if it is largely oriented toward legacy technologies. But how can it track these dynamics before it has already lost its edge?
Assessing the quality and competitiveness of the workforce requires innovative metrics of skill concentration. \n\nUtilizing real time labor market data, including the Burning Glass Institute’s database of the career histories of over 65 million US workers and Lightcast’s database of US job postings, we identified and analyzed concentrations of “Frontier Skills” – skills that command a high wage premium while also demonstrating rapidly growing demand.
\n\nTo look at how cities stack up based on their current workforces, we measure the “Share of Workers with Frontier Skills ” for each city. For a more forward-looking view, we look to the “ Tech Worker Momentum Score ” measure, which is a score that accounts for the change in Frontier Skill usage and tech employment growth over time. These two measures vary widely across the nation and, when considered together, reveal which cities are out front, which are on the rise, and which are falling behind.
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