The U.S. software industry employed 2.5 million people...
The U.S. software industry employed 2.5 million people in 2014, or 2.2 percent of the country’s overall private workforce, said the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) in a report released Wednesday (http://bit.ly/1wE4Swy). SIIA said the software industry “contributes greatly…
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to rising output and productivity in other industries and sectors.” From 2004 to 2012, the software industry accounted for 15.4 percent of the country’s labor productivity gains, SIIA said. “Software has become an enormous driving force, creating significant economic output and jobs as an industry and serving as an economic catalyst across almost the entire U.S. economy,” said Vice President-Public Policy Mark MacCarthy. “Every 10 software jobs support five jobs in other industries."