Indianapolis and high tech job growth (tech jobs, income, stats)

[Vision-Quest]

If you watched channel 13 earlier, indianapolis is ranked the highest high tech job growth in the nation at %8.6. they also said the average income for those high tech jobs are $63,000. Way to go Indy, great job.. expecially to Mitch Daniels

[domergurl]

What tech jobs are they talking about?

[sweetana3]

But remember Lilly is continuing to "reallocate" (layoff) jobs and those people are being dumped on the local market with Lilly skills. Although they always seem to find new jobs.

[jcamber]

I'm an ex-Lilly and I know the company has had a hire freeze for a long time. The re-allocation process is also not fun as you may end up doing something you don't like or doesn't have a good growth prospect.

The biggest benefit to having worked there is how your career gets a nice push when you look outside the company. It's well regarded and recognized, that's for sure.

[Marius]

Some stats are wrong. They say Chicago has tons of tech jobs, but try getting a call back from anything listed on Careerbuildere or YahooHotJobs. They are all consulting companies and recruiters offering $35k a year jobs and expecting 5-10 years experience. You need nothing less than $70k a year to survive in Chitown. The companies hire H1-B Hindu/Paki's all the time and pay them peanuts.