Jessica Fisher, Staff Writer
A report released earlier this year found that Georgia’s tech industry ranked 11th in the country and employed 198,100 workers in 2014.
According to the report, Georgia’s tech workers had an annual average salary of $89,400. This average was 88 percent more than the average private sector wage in the entire state.
The report was released by non-profit information technology association CompTIA in its 2015 Cyberstates report. The report provided a state-by-state analysis of the U.S. technology job market.
Sixty-seven hundred net jobs were added between 2013 and 2014. That number is expected to continue to rise in 2015.
The tech payroll in Georgia equaled out to 17.7 billion in 2014. This payroll placed Georgia 20th nationwide in tech payroll.
Overall, 7.7 percent of the state economy is from the tech industry.
