Sunday, February 22, 2009

Bay Area jobs are an IT heaven

By Alex Wu

San Francisco Bay Area is the core of IT jobs in the Northern America. Bay area jobs offer the highest salaries in the sector and also the widest range of insurance coverage for their employees. No wonder that savvy professionals in both internet and informatics field have been looking for Bay area jobs and have been moving to the area massively last two decades. IT employment is,by far,the most highly evolving trend in last two decades and attracts corporations to develop in that direction. Given the history - short but successful - of the Northern California, many popular and successful internet businesses are located right here: Google, Digg, and Sega,as well as Technorati and Cnet, to mention just a few of them.

Bay area jobs occupy the greatest share of employment in the US on the IT field,according to studies and statistics that follow the migration of IT experts to the Bay area for the last twenty years. The combination of high salaries and great insurance - benefit packages are the most appealing advantages of the Bay area jobs. These studies also indicate that the numbers of IT job openings have reduced the last five years, but still remain the highest in the Northern America, for a reason. This reason is that although the area has been famous, mostly, for the Internet service providers and IT distributing companies, a large number of manufacturers decided to headquarter in the area, creating increasingly more jobs.

The Bay area jobs are attractive to people with significant intellectual talent and technology insight. The area is considered to be the paradise for graduates and IT savvies, as the 35% of the residents that hold a bachelor degree,have actually studied something related to information technology.

San Francisco is the third US city in concentration of University graduates and IT degree holders, behind Seattle and Austin. The most impressive is though that more than 60% of those who choose to move to the Bay area hold an IT degree and the actual reason of moving is a job related to their studies.

The increasingly growing need for IT professionals and restructuring of market demands towards IT services, create mere opportunities for information technologists. This is fact that also brings higher salaries and benefits for the employees. The Bay area is the leader in this department as well.

Remuneration packages and full benefits for 'minorities', including gays and people with physical deficiencies, bring the Bay area jobs among the most wanted in the USA. A recent statistic shows that the revenues for the average employee are 20% higher in the area than in other places, for the exact same job.

If looking for a well paid in a well appointed place, then you should consider expanding your search in the Bay area. There is probably some well paid job for you too. - 15790

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