Central Ohio Ranked Among the Top North American High-Tech Metros | TechColumbus

Central Ohio Ranked Among the Top North American High-Tech Metros | TechColumbus


June 12, 2009

The Milken Institute has released its report, North America’s High Tech Economy – The Geography of Knowledge-Based Industries.  Based on data from 2007, Columbus ranked 45th out of 393 high-tech metros across North America.  Demonstrating the region’s continued progress in establishing its presence and performance as a technology hub, the metro area moved up five spots from 50th in 2003.  Columbus was one of only a handful of Midwest metros to make the Top 50 and was the only metro ranked in the top 50 in the state. 

The report based its rankings on 19 indexes including total high-tech wages, share of North American wages, total employment, the region’s share of North American high-tech employment and other factors.  The report credited Columbus metro with more than $4.2 billion in high-tech wages and nearly 60,000 high-tech jobs. 

For the complete rankings: http://www.milkeninstitute.org/nahightech/nahightech.taf