TECH INDUSTRY: THE BEST CAREER OPTION

CompTIA, Computing Technology Industry Association, better known as the voice of the world's information technology (IT) industry, published the Cyberstates 2016 report on Tuesday. The report had some excellent news for the tech lovers, as employment in the technology industry in the US has hit a new high.

CompTIA's Cyberstates 2016 report provides a comprehensive picture of tech employment, wages and other key economic factors on a national and state-by-state basis, covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

According to the report, US technology industry today employs more than 6.7 million people, adding nearly 200,000 jobs in 2015 alone. This is high-tech industry's highest growth rate in the past decade, as 46 states recorded net growth in tech jobs. This growth is being attributed to positive trends in custom computing programming services, cloud computing, the Internet of Things and greater numbers of organizations going on the offensive with cyber security.

CompTIA also added that there were 1 million self-employed or sole-proprietorship tech operators in the U.S. the same year. The growth in employment was slated at 3% year over year (YOY), compared to the national employment growth average at 2.1% YOY in 2015.

The technology industry makes up approximately 7.1 percent of the overall GDP and 11.6 percent of the total private sector payroll. The tech industry is an umbrella term for services like IT, Telecommunications, Engineering, Research and development, manufacturing etc.

IT services scored the highest, contributing 105,400 jobs last year, which makes for more than half of the overall job growth in tech in 2015. Even the tech manufacturing which hadn't witnessed any growth in the past decade finally rang in with 3,700 new employees. State-wise, California was a clear leader in terms of employment, wages, payroll, and in a number of establishments.

The numbers definitely indicate that the expanding technology industry will stand prominently as a career option in the U.S. in the years to come.