Actually, 54,000 "digital services" jobs in a metro with 2.2 million (Austin), comes out to be .245 percent of the total area population employed in that sector. Only San Jose, San Francisco, and Seattle have a higher percentage of their respective populations employed in "digital services". San Jose is the clear winner with almost triple that rate. SF and Seattle are about double that rate per person. You need to factor in that Austin is a much smaller metro overall than these other players with large numbers like DFW or Los Angeles. Also, I don't think the "digital services" job category includes semi-conductor manufacturing and even some hardware manufacturing, which accounts for an additional 15,000 to 20,000 Austin jobs. Samsung, AMD, Freescale, and several smaller specialty chip manufacturers have a big presence in Austin. Dell and Apple still do some manufacturing here.
Last edited by austlar1; Mar 9, 2020 at 1:21 AM.
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