Workforce Data
- Approximately 20% of San Francisco's workforce is employed in IT and digital media industries.
- With 188,000 directly employed IT workers, the San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley offer the largest talent pool of its kind in the country.
- A comprehensive professional services industry supporting IT companies has long served the area around San Francisco.
- The California Employment Development Department (EDD) projects 2,600 new jobs in the IT services industry and 1,000 in software and digital media.
- About 37% of IT/digital media jobs are held by workers without a four-year degree—almost all are paid an above-average salary for their level of education.
- The Bay Area accounts for 1.5 times more IT jobs than second-ranked Los Angeles.
- Bay Area IT service firms have added jobs at a faster pace than IT service firms in the nation as a whole.
- Resident labor force: 430,267
- In-bound commuters: 628,600
- 63% of the population is between 20-54 years of age (median: 39.4.)
- With a relatively stable share of IT employment and substantial gains in productivity, the IT sector has had a growing impact on the Bay Area economy, accounting for as much as 20% of total wages and salaries of workers in the region.