New York City's 394,300 tech talent jobs edged out the San Francisco Bay Area's 375,730, the first time NY has led in 13 years of CBRE analysis
New York City has surpassed the San Francisco Bay Area
as the largest tech talent market by headcount in the U.S., according
to CBRE's 13th annual Scoring Tech Talent report. New York's 394,300
tech talent jobs surpassed San Francisco's 375,730 — a milestone that
marks the first time New York has claimed the top position in the
history of CBRE's analysis.
The shift reflects two forces working in opposite directions: layoffs of
non-AI tech workers in the Bay Area, and strong AI and finance-driven
hiring in New York. "The story there is that there's been cuts in the
Bay Area, so the tech industry has contracted the size of the tech
talent workforce, and the finance sector [in New York] has hired a lot
of tech talent and a lot of AI workers," Colin Yasukochi, who serves as
executive director of CBRE's Tech Insights Center in San Francisco, told
CNBC...
RSK: This is one of the reasons NYC is experiencing an uptick in office leasing.
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