Blog Entry

From InformationWeek reporting on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (via Slashdot), here are the unemployment rates for IT professionals broken out by category:

DB Admins:

2.8%

Software Engineers:

3.2%

Managers:

4.6%

Sys Admins:

5.7%

System Analysts:

8.2%

Programmers:

8.3%

National average for unemployement across all industries: 5.3%.

Since I know there are a few programmers on this site, I'm betting these numbers aren't all that surprising to you. If you don't like these numbers, perhaps you can do something about it.

Or not.

[Original use.perl.org post and comments.]