That's it. 2004 or 2003 data only.

Hi macaonghus,

There are nearly 1 million IT workers employed in the state of California.

"The American high-technology industry employs over 5 million workers
in the United States (U.S.), nearly a million of whom are concentrated
in California. The U.S. is the leading market for technology products
and services from software, semiconductors and computers to Internet
technology, advanced electronics and telecommunications systems and
services."

Silicon Valley Tax Directors Group: About the American High-Tech Industry
http://www.svtdg.org/trends.html


Nov 14,2004 
928K tech jobs in California today
"The number of tech jobs in California has dropped 21% since early
2001 to 928,000, according to Economy.com..."

IT Facts
http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P2009

Montana Associated Technology Roundtables: Silicon Valley address no
longer critical to dot-com start-ups
http://www.matr.net/article-12580.html


"California, the state with the most high-tech jobs, accounted for
123,000 job losses in 2002, 22 percent of the U.S. total.
Nevertheless, the state ended the year with 994,700 jobs, more than
twice the number of jobs in No. 2 Texas, which had 478,900."

Tech Web: Tech Jobs Decline for Second Year
http://www.techweb.com/wire/26802980


"California had 973,600 workers employed in IT jobs in 2000, about
100,000 more than in 1999..."

IT World: Number of IT jobs in US grows to 5.3 million
http://www.itworld.com/Career/1828/NumberofITjobsinUSgr428/


"California, while leading the country in high-tech jobs with 995,00
workers at the end of 2002, also lost the greatest number of jobs,
with 123,000 people put out of work..."

IT Facts
http://www.itfacts.biz/index.php?id=P333

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As of July 2004, there are 175,100 IT workers in Silicon Valley.

"...the latest figures from California's state government Employment
Development Department (EDD) estimate the number of technology workers
in Silicon Valley ? Santa Clara county ? at 175,100 as of July 2004.

The figures, based on US Department of Labor state and area estimates
puts the total number of people in employment in Santa Clara at
874,400. The 175,100 tech workers are employed in computer design and
related services, telecoms, ISPs, data processing and hosting and
computer and electronic production."

Source: Silicon
Bangalore to topple Silicon Valley from top tech spot  - July 28 2004 
http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/offshoring/0,3800003026,39122697,00.htm


Search criteria:
number california "IT jobs" workers
"900000..1000000" california "number of" "IT workers"
"995000..999000" california "IT workers OR employees"
"Silicon Valley" "number of" "IT workers"
"170000..180000" "Silicon Valley" "number of" "IT workers"


I hope this is helpful.

Best regards,
Rainbow

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Request for Answer Clarification by macaonghus-ga on 11 Apr 2005 13:32 PDT

Rainbow, when you use the search term, "170000..180000", does Google
search for all the numbers in that range?

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Clarification of Answer by rainbow-ga on 11 Apr 2005 14:00 PDT

Yes. 

See here:

Numrange search  
"Feel like a number? Numrange searches for results containing numbers
in a given range. Just add two numbers, separated by two periods, with
no spaces, into the search box along with your search terms. You can
use Numrange to set ranges for everything from dates (Willie Mays
1950..1960) to weights  (5000..10000 kg truck). But be sure to specify
a unit of measurement or some other indicator of what the number range
represents."

://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html

I hope that helps.

Best regards,
Rainbow

I learnt about number range search on Google, great.

Hi macaonghus,
I'm glad I was able to help. Thank you very much for the rating and tip.
Best wishes,
Rainbow