INDUSTRY CLUSTERS INDUSTRY NUMBERNumber OF HIGH of TECHAdvanced INDUSTRY Services BUSINESSES Businesses HIGH TECH THE INFORMATION AGE WAS BORN IN DFW 75 In 1958, Dallas led the nation into the new 1 17 88 35E 1 60 760 121 era of information and communication TOP SEMICONDUCTOR & SEMICONDUCTOR TOP COMPUTER SYSTEMS & SOFTWARE MACHINERY MANUFACTURERS WITH COMPANIES WITH OPERATIONS IN DFW technologies with Nobel Laureate Jack 35W OPERATIONS IN DFW Kilby’s invention of the microchip at Texas Accenture [Irving] Creation Technologies [Plano] Instruments. This invention allowed Capgemini [Dallas] Maxim Integrated Products [Dallas] Cognizant [Irving] the development of laptop computers, Texas Instruments [Dallas, Plano, Richardson] Computer Sciences Corp [Irving] smartphones, and space travel. | HIGH TECH Qorvo [Richardson] HP Enterprise Services [Plano] 190 The DFW technology industry IBM [Dallas] encompasses four general categories: Infosys [Plano] manufacturing, information services, TOP FABLESS SEMICONDUCTOR COMPANIES WITH OPERATIONS IN DFW L-3 Communications [Rockwall] professional technical services, and bio-life Diodes Inc. [Plano] Microsoft [Irving] sciences. The region’s activity in key emerging Micron Technology [Allen] NTT Data [Plano] technologies such as next generation wireless Qorvo [Richardson] Oracle [Dallas] 30 and broadband communications, artifi cial STMicroelectronics [Coppell] Raytheon [Garland, McKinney] 635 intelligence, and virtual reality as well as RealPage [Richardson] 820 183 medical, bio, and life sciences, is gaining SAP AG [Irving] TOP TELECOM COMPANIES Siemens PLM Software [Plano] increasing national recognition. WITH OPERATIONS IN DFW 360 AT&T [Dallas] TEKsystems [Irving] 30 BT Global Services [Dallas] Trend Micro NA [Irving] Xerox [Dallas] 12 TH Cisco Systems [Richardson] 20 THE 7 LARGEST CONCENTRATION OF Ericsson [Plano] HIGH TECH JOBS IN THE U.S. Frontier Communications [Richardson] TOP CLOUD SERVICES & DATA CENTER 20 Fujitsu Network Communications [Richardson] COMPANIES WITH OPERATIONS IN DFW 2018 HIGH-TECH GENBAND [Frisco, Plano] ADP [Dallas] 175 EMPLOYMENT Goodman Networks [Plano] Amazon Web Services [Dallas/Fort Worth] NEW YORK-NEWARK-JERSEY 483,542 Huawei Technologies [Plano] AT&T [Dallas] CITY, NY-NJ-PA MetroPCS [Richardson] Atos [Dallas] WASHINGTON-ARLINGTON- 67 351,559 NEC Corporation [Irving] Cisco Systems [Allen, Richardson] ALEXANDRIA, DC-VA-MD-WV Nokia [Dallas, Irving] Comparex USA [Dallas] LOS ANGELES-LONG BEACH- HIGH TECH MANUFACTURING BIO SCIENCES35E & MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY 335,716 Nokia Solutions and Networks [Irving] CyrusOne [Carrollton] ANAHEIM, CA Raytheon [McKinney, Dallas, Plano] Equinix [Dallas] INDUSTRY ESTABLISHMENTS AVG. EMPLOYMENT INDUSTRY ESTABLISHMENTS AVG. EMPLOYMENT CHICAGO-NAPERVILLE- 35W 45 250,935 Rockwell Collins [Richardson] Facebook [Fort Worth] ELGIN, IL-IN-WI SEMICONDUCTOR MACHINERY 8 103 BASIC CHEMICAL 69 2,070 Samsung Telecommunications Fujitsu Ltd. [Richardson] MANUFACTURING MANUFACTURING BOSTON-CAMBRIDGE- 249,947 [Richardson, Coppell] HP Enterprise Services [Plano] NEWTON, MA-NH Verizon Communications [Irving, Richardson] IBM [Dallas] OPTICAL INSTRUMENT AND 12 334 PHARMACEUTICAL AND 54 4,191 SAN FRANCISCO-OAKLAND- LENS MANUFACTURING MEDICINE MANUFACTURING 247,925 Level 3 Communications [Dallas] HAYWARD, CA Rackspace Hosting [Dallas] COMPUTER AND ELECTRONIC 453 41,760 MEDICAL EQUIPMENT AND 225 6,068 DALLAS-FORT WORTH- TOP ELECTRONIC INSTRUMENT COMPANIES PRODUCT MANUFACTURING SUPPLIES MANUFACTURING 228,757 Raging Wire [Garland] ARLINGTON, TX WITH OPERATIONS IN DFW BAE Systems [Fort Worth] SAVVIS (CenturyLink) [Dallas] AEROSPACE PRODUCT AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND SEATTLE-TACOMA- 106 31,307 310 5,298 217,918 PARTS MANUFACTURING DEVELOPMENT SERVICES BELLEVUE, WA DRS Technologies [Dallas] SoftLayer [Dallas] T5 Data Centers [Plano] SUB-TOTAL 579 73,504 SUB-TOTAL 658 17,627 SAN JOSE-SUNNYVALE- Elbit Systems [Fort Worth] 216,573 SANTA CLARA, CA Emerson Process Management [McKinney] Verio (NTT Communications) [Dallas] Verizon Terremark [Irving] HOUSTON-THE WOODLANDS- Garrett Electronics [Garland] 198,940 INFORMATION SERVICES PROFESSIONAL TECHNICAL SERVICES SUGAR LAND, TX Honeywell [Richardson] ViaWest [Plano] XO Communications [Dallas] Schneider Electric [Plano] INDUSTRY ESTABLISHMENTS AVG. EMPLOYMENT INDUSTRY ESTABLISHMENTS AVG. EMPLOYMENT Megger Group [Dallas] SOFTWARE PUBLISHERS 336 9,555 ENGINEERING SERVICES 1,335 21,825 DFW HOSTS ONE THIRD OF ALL TOP ONLINE SERVICES COMPANIES WITH HIGH TECH JOBS IN TEXAS OPERATIONS IN DFW TELECOMMUNICATIONS 824 37,709 TESTING LABORATORIES 177 2,486 Amazon.com [Coppell, Haslet] DATA PROCESSING, HOSTING, 417 13,689 COMPUTER TRAINING 51 337 Expedia (Hotels.com) [Dallas] AND RELATED SERVICES COMPUTER SYSTEMS DESIGN 6,837 73,865 DFW 31.8% Facebook [Fort Worth] INTERNET PUBLISHING AND AND RELATED SERVICES HOUSTON 27.7% IAC/InteractiveCorp (Match.com, Chemistry. BROADCASTING AND WEB 214 2,053 com) [Dallas] SEARCH PORTALS SUB-TOTAL 8,400 98,513 AUSTIN 13.2% SuperMedia/DEX One (Superpages.com) [Irving] SUB-TOTAL 1,791 63,006 TOTAL FOR ALL SECTORS 11,428 252,650 SAN ANTONIO 6.9% Sabre Holdings (Travelocity) [Southlake]
LEGEND: OCCUPATION COMPUTER SOFTWARE COMPUTER COMPUTER AEROSPACE COMPUTER ELECTRICAL MECHANICAL INDUSTRIAL SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS DEVELOPERS, NETWORK NETWORK SUPPORT ENGINEERS HARDWARE ENGINEERS ENGINEERS ENGINEERING PROCESSORS JOBS | MEDIAN HOURLY EARNINGS ANALYSTS SYSTEMS SOFTWARE ARCHITECTS SPECIALISTS 3,117 | $55.48 ENGINEERS 5,319 | $47.19 5,588 | $43.63 TECHNICIANS 2,183 | $18.31 22,420 | $44.10 9,823 | $51.87 5,432 | $56.46 7,222 | $38.25 760 | $51.40 1,605 | $31.34
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