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Statistics about the tech work force in the US. How many employees? how many work in private companies how many in public companies. How many companies are private and how many public? how many of the private companies are startups?
Hello! Thanks for your question about the tech work force in the US. The short version is that the tech industry has seen real growth in the U.S., both in startups as well as with large companies. All the questions asked and other interesting information has been listed and referenced below. There is, however, no clear information on the industry share between private and public companies, so calculations have been needed to achieve these answers. Below you will find a deep dive of my findings.
METHODOLOGY
To answer this question I have searched the internet thoroughly, taking information from trusted sources to give a full answer. Where the information has not been available, I have attempted to make simple calculations to give an approximate answer. All information is given as a list of simple bullet points.
KEY FINDINGS OF USA TECH INDUSTRY EMPLOYMENT
According to a report by CompTIA, the U.S technology workers grew by 2% to about 7.3 million workers in 2016.
The United States has more than 100,000 software, and IT services firms. 99% are small and medium-sized companies with employees below 500.
Another report by CompTIA showed that the annual average wage of U.S. tech industry worker is $105,400 compared to $51,600 for the average private sector wage.
A 2014 report, which is the most recent data, reveals that technology firms employed 5.7% of private sector workers.
In 2015, Federal government IT spending in the U.S was $80 billion. For the 2017 fiscal year, the government has budgeted $81.6 billion for IT spending.
S&P 500 employment has risen as a share of U.S. nonfarm payroll employment, from 15% in 1990 to 17.3 percent in 2015 according to Bloomberg.
30.4% of U.S. tech employment is concentrated in the top 10" companies. As the larger more established companies are usually the publicly traded companies, we can assume that this is a good estimate of how many tech workers are employed at public companies, meaning there will be approximately 2 million tech workers employed at public companies (based on an approximate of 7 million total).
There are about one million self-employed or sole-proprietorship tech workers in the U.S according to Techrepublic.
The tech industry currently employs 6.7 million people, and over the last 25 years, practically all new private sector jobs have been created by businesses less than five years old."
CONCLUSION
To wrap it up, the USA tech industry employs almost 7 million workers, with wages rising every year. Though there are no clear stats on start-ups or private companies, we do know that the biggest employers are companies that are under five years old.
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