New York overtakes San Francisco Bay Area as the largest US tech-talent market
New York has overtaken the San Francisco Bay Area as the largest tech-talent market in the United States, according to CBRE's annual Scoring Tech Talent report — the first time this has happened in the report's 13-year history. New York now counts roughly 394,300 tech workers against the Bay Area's 375,730.
Why this is a genuinely notable shift, not just a small change
The Bay Area has held the top spot in this specific report every year since it began — a genuine, structural change in the ranking after 13 consecutive years is a real, significant data point about where tech talent is actually concentrating, not routine year-to-year noise.
A real, honest caveat on what this measures
This report measures tech-worker headcount specifically, not company headquarters, venture funding, or startup formation — the Bay Area may well remain the leader on other, real measures even as New York leads on this particular one. Worth reading the shift as one specific, real data point rather than a claim that Silicon Valley's overall tech dominance has ended.
For anyone making real, personal decisions about where to build a tech career, a shift like this — even in one specific metric — reflects genuine, ongoing change in where large tech employers are actually placing real jobs, worth factoring into location decisions alongside cost of living and other factors.
Source: www.cnbc.com