Cyberstates 2006: A Complete State-by-State Overview of the High-Technology Industry is AeA's ninth annual study in our cyber report series The report offers 165 pages and nine chapters detailing national and state trends in tech employment, establishments, wages, payroll, trade, venture capital investments, and research and development expenditures.

In addition to our annual Cyberstates series, AeA produces current reports on issues crucial to the vitality and competitiveness of the U.S. high-tech industry and the nation as a whole.  The following are AeA's most recent publications:

• The Competitiveness Series: Timely Research Reports on Keeping the United States Competitive in a Global Economy
• Losing the Competitive Advantage?: The Challenge for Science and Technology in the United States
• Sarbanes-Oxley 404: The 'Section' of Unintended Consequences and Its Impact on Small Business

In discussing our top public policy priorities with Congress, the Executive Branch, and State Legislatures, AeA's research publications provide the data and analysis that brings credibility to our issues.

U.S. High-Tech Employment Edges Upward in 2005

• U.S. high-tech employment totaled 5.6 million in 2005, up by 61,100 jobs in 2005.
• High-tech manufacturing industry employment was up for the first time since 2000, by 3,300 jobs between 2004 and 2005.
• Software services employment and engineering and tech services employment both increased in 2005 for the second consecutive year, by 43,400 and 57,000 jobs, respectively.
  

• California, Texas, New York, Florida, and Virginia led the nation in high-tech employment
• Twenty-five cyberstates added tech jobs between 2003 and 2004. The remaining 27 cyberstates all lost technology industry jobs.
• Over the long run, the high-tech industry in Virginia added the most jobs nationwide, nearly 9,900 between 1999 and 2004.
• Colorado led the nation in concentration of high-tech workers in 2004, with 88.7 high-tech workers per 1,000 private sector jobs, followed by Virginia with 88.6 per 1,000.

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