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Utah tech growth highlights

Published: Thursday, May 11, 2006 10:49 a.m. MDT
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The number of Utah tech industry companies totaled 3,786 in September 2005, up from 3,528 a year earlier, according to data from the Utah Department of Workforce Services for 50 job codes defined by the Utah Technology Council as information technology and life science industries.

Salt Lake County had the most tech companies in Utah, with 2,049, or 54 percent. Next were Utah County with 784, or 21 percent, and Davis County with 298, or 8 percent.

Utah's average tech-worker salary is 66 percent higher than the statewide average annual nonagricultural wage, according to data from the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics for the 50 UTC-defined job codes.

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