{"id":269272,"date":"2010-02-03T04:30:24","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T09:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/2010\/02\/03\/silicon-valley-tech-workers-earning-less-than-in-2000-voices\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T04:30:24","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T09:30:24","slug":"silicon-valley-tech-workers-earning-less-than-in-2000-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/269272","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley Tech Workers Earning Less Than in 2000 [Voices]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>By Cari Tuna, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal<\/p>\n<p>While some of the latest government wage data appears to show that Silicon Valley\u2019s high-tech workers are making more now than they did in 2000, a closer look at the numbers shows that\u2019s not exactly the case.<\/p>\n<p>High-tech employees in Silicon Valley \u2013 including semiconductor, computer and software makers, Internet workers and scientific-research-and-development workers, among others \u2013 earned $130,700 per person in 2009, based on annualized wage data from the first half of last year, compared with $120,100 in 2000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>But adjusted for inflation, such workers made just $105,500 apiece in 2009 based on annualized data, or 12.2 percent less than those in 2000, the BLS said Tuesday as it released a report on trends in high-tech wages and employment since the dot-com area.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/digits\/2010\/02\/02\/silicon-valley-tech-workers-earning-less-than-in-2000\/?mod=rss_WSJBlog&amp;mod=\">Read the rest of this post on the original site<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Buy This Item: <a class=\"buy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.stoth.com\/buy.php\" ><span style=\"color: #33bc03\">[Click here to buy this item]<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.allthingsd.com\/20100203\/silicon-valley-tech-workers-earning-less-than-in-2000\/?mod=ATD_rss\" >Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Cari Tuna, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal While some of the latest government wage data appears to show that Silicon Valley\u2019s high-tech workers are making more now than they did in 2000, a closer look at the numbers shows that\u2019s not exactly the case. High-tech employees in Silicon Valley \u2013 including semiconductor, computer and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}