Best US Cities for Tech Sales Jobs (2008)
SalesHQ provided a list, slideshow and descriptions of 30 Best Cities for Tech Sales Jobs. The well-known Californian high-tech oriented Silicon Valley close to San Jose comes on top, followed by Boulder (Colorado) and Huntsville (Alabama).
To avoid Silicon Valley’s high cost of living, consider as options other areas. Rankings is based on tech job density and include data on total jobs, growth in that total from 2005, average annual sales salary, and biggest sector in each city.
1. San Jose/Silicon Valley
The rich but expensive area where Google, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, Apple and plenty of other high-tech companies chose headquarters has a 3% growth with almost 300 tech sales jobs per thousand and an average wage of $100,000.
2. Boulder
This Colorado city has more jobs per thousand than Silicon Valley, but only 1% growth, with an average wage of $88,740. Biggest sector in the area is the computer systems design, with companies like IBM and Level 3 Communications.
3. Huntsville
This surprising city of Alabama has plenty of jobs per thousand, 1% growth and an average wage of $60,600, with the most important tech sales sector in the area the engineering services.
Here are the cities with best tech sales jobs in US:
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