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Two percent of Philly IT jobs are freelance and other tech community Census data
The following is a report done in partnership with Temple University’s Philadelphia Neighborhoods Program, the capstone class for the Temple Journalism Department.
The Greater Philadelphia area is home to the offices of technical industry giants such as Comcast, SAP AG, Unisys Corporation and Sungard Data Systems, among others, which hold the bulk of some 12,510 information technology jobs throughout the City of Philadelphia, according to 2010 American Community Survey data.
As U.S. Census data continues to be released, shaping funding and legislative redistricting, a new decade is always an opportunity to look to see just what a community looks like. Philadelphia’s tech community leaders are often considered entrepreneurs and freelancers but, truth be told, most of the IT jobs here are with the region’s big employers.
Philly’s creative sector employed 17,699 people in 2008, says report
The creative economies of Philadelphia are still small but jobs in those sectors held relatively stable during the build up to the Great Recession, according to a William Penn Foundation-funded report released last week. The creative economy included jobs like graphic designers and animators and spanned from 2006 to 2008.
Commissioned by the Mayor’s Office of the Arts, Culture and Creative Economy and its chief Gary Steuer, the Nutter administration quickly trumpeted the research as showing a vibrant creative community.
InterDigital drops 100 jobs
The press release said the move was about “profitability” so, you know, don’t worry about it.
One-hundred people will lose their jobs with InterDigital, a King of Prussia-based wireless technology company, as the company closes further development of its SlimChip mobile broadband modem technology, according to a company press release.
That news was buried by the company’s announcement to expand its technology development and licensing business through targeted new investment in both cellular and non-cellular wireless technologies.
What is the tech employment scene like in Philly now?
It may not yet be as bad as the dot com bust of 2001, but tech industries are facing mounting employment pressure.
Country-wide, unemployment has raced past eight percent and, though in 2001 it reached seven, those unemployed in tech make up more than five percent of the industry, according to the most recent numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In the Philadelphia region, the general unemployment number eclipsed seven percent, but within city limits, it is nearing nine.
