Table: “Fast Rise of Foreign-Born Tech Workers in Seattle: Where Foreign Born Tech Workers Come From”, in Seattle Times, January 18, 2018. p. A1.
India: 23195 (40.8%).
Canada: 3427 (13.5%).
China: 7680 (13.5%).
Russia: 3349 (5.9%).
South Korea: 1998 (3.5%).
Vietnam: 1683 (3%).
Philippines: 1194 (2.3%).
Mexico: 1081 (1.9%).
England: 965 (1.7%).
Germany: 865 (1.5%).
Source: Bureau of the Census.
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Table: “Fast Rise of Foreign-Born Tech Workers in Seattle: Seattle Ranks High Among High Tech Hubs For the Percentage of Foreign Born IT Workers”, in Seattle Times, January 18, 2018. p. A1.
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara [Silicon Valley]: 71%.
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward: 50.3%.
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue: 39.8%.
DC-Arlington-Alexandria: 33.6%.
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington: 31.4%.
Boston-Cambridge-Newton: 30.8%.
San Diego-Carlsbad: 30.5%.
Raleigh: 27.2%.
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington: 24.9%.
Austin-Round Rock: 22%.
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro: 20.9%.
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood: 15.8%.
Source: Bureau of the Census.
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Table: “Fast Rise of Foreign-Born Tech Workers in Seattle: US Born and Foreign Born Tech Workers, 1990, 2016”, in Seattle Times, January 18, 2018. p. A1.
(Microsoft has long been an aggressive recruiter in India for US jobs for decades.)
1990: foreign: 2898 [10.5%]; USA: 24639 [89.5%].
2016:: foreign: 56918 [39%] [36000 have H1-B visas and are not US citizens]; USA: 89002 [61%].
Source: Bureau of the Census.
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Table: “Fast Rise of Foreign-Born Tech Workers in Seattle: Foreign Tech Workers in Seattle: Year of Immigration”, in Seattle Times, January 18, 2018. p. A1.
Before 1990: 13.2%.
1990-1999: 18.2%.
2000-2009: 26.4%.
2010-2016: 42.2%.
Source: Bureau of the Census.
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Table: “Fast Rise of Foreign-Born Tech Workers in Seattle: Percentage of Foreign Born Workers By Occupation”, in Seattle Times, January 18, 2018. p. A1.
Software Developers: 50.9%.
Network and computer systems administrators: 43.3%.
Computer hardware engineers: 40.4%.
Computer and information systems managers: 30.8%.
Computer programmers: 30.6%.
Computer support specialists: 29.9%.
Computer scientists and systems analysts/web developers: 27.0%.
Database administrators: 9.8%.
Source: Bureau of the Census.
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