Tech Tuesday: It's Where The Jobs Are

Here's a hint for high school graduates or college students still majoring in indecision: Study computer science or engineering, and plan to move to a big city. Peep my boy Strasser from high school, dude just graduated from Yale...and is now making serious bread at Microsoft! I smell EF investment money S.A new survey out this week from AeA, the group formerly known as the American Electronics Assn., reports that jobs in the technology industry are growing at a healthy clip, especially in large cities. The organization's Cybercities 2008 survey says that 51 cities added high-technology jobs in 2006, the most recent year for which data were available. The survey tracks new jobs related to the creation of tech products, including fields such as chip manufacturing and software engineering. It is the AeA's first such survey since 2000, which was taken before the crash of the tech bubble that created so many jobs in the late 1990s. Where are the highest salaries? That would be Silicon Valley, where the average tech worker is paid $144,000 a year. That's nearly double the $80,000 national average for tech jobs

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