30,200 Jobs Added in Technology Sector for 2010

Industry trade group TechAmerica reports that there have been 30,200 jobs added to the U.S. economy in the first six months of 2010. The data being used comes from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The new jobs being added have been broken down into the following categories: software services (14,200), technology services (29,700) and technology manufacturers (9,100).

“Though the tech industry was among the last to feel the effects of the economic downturn of 2008-2009, it was not immune to job loss and is only slowly showing signs of climbing out of it,” said vice president of research, for TechAmerica Josh James. “Tech employment, as of June 2010, stood at 5.78 million, compared with 5.99 million in January 2009. So there is still a way to go before we’ve made up for lost jobs, and continued recovery is by no means certain. With job growth in three of the four tech sectors, we remain guardedly optimistic.”