Saturday, January 24, 2009

Interesting Facts on Bay Area jobs

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.

Bay area jobs seem to be most appealing and attractive to degree holders; again the numbers and statistics are really impressive. San Francisco is the third US city, after Seattle and Austin, in University graduate residents, while the majority of them holding an IT degree.

For those who adore numbers, the 45% of the residents have at least a BA, while the 60% of those who move to the City and the Bay area are doing so because there is an IT job waiting for them. IT savvies appreciate the Bay area mostly because they can work on the field of their studies.

As a prominent IT leader area, the Bay has managed to offer every year the most intriguing and attractive job packages both for experienced professionals and recent graduates. It is considered that the Bay area jobs offer salaries that are at least 20% higher in comparison with other states. Probably this is a reason why living in the area is equally expensive.

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.

IT sector has been a jobseekers' jackpot for a while. And it seems it will keep its high position regardless some possible slowdowns due to the actual recession or slower pace of industrial shifts. No matter what Bay area jobs remain equally appealing to potential IT professionals. - 16069

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