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Wednesday, May 20, 1998 Texas outpaces other states in high-tech job
growth AUSTIN (AP) -- Texas' high-tech industry added 69,000 jobs
between 1990 and 1996, more than any other state, according to
the American Electronics Association. The group on Tuesday announced that Texas led the nation in
high-tech job growth two years ago. Texas also had the largest
number of data-information services workers, 34,000. Texas ranked second among the states for the total number of
high-tech workers, 343,005 in 1996. California was ranked first
with 724,000 high-tech workers. "The high-tech industry has been instrumental in retooling
the Texas economy," said Dick Moeller, president of Austin-based
VTEL Corp., a video conferencing company, and an executive committee
chairman for the electronics association. "Texas is known as much for its computer chips as its
oil oil "Texas is known as much for its computer chips as its
oilrigs," Moeller said. AEA said Texas in 1996 had 9,297 high-tech businesses employing
343,000 workers. Those Texans made an average of $50,005, 76 percent
more than the average private sector wage of $28,000. "High-tech has become an integral part of Texas' economic
base and through the 1990s has buoyed the state economy,"
said state Rep. Bill Carter, R-Fort Worth and a member of the
House State Affairs Committee.
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