The U.S. tech industry added nearly 64,000 software related jobs last year, but as the workforce expanded, the average size of workers’ pay checks declined by nearly 2 percent. The Cyberstates report puts the tech labor force at 5.95 million in 2012, an increase of 1.1 percent from the prior year. Of that, 1.87 million workers are in software services jobs.
Software services, includes :government defined labor categories software publishers, custom programmers, computer facilities management and other computer related services.
