{"id":860,"date":"2011-06-26T08:23:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T12:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/?p=860"},"modified":"2018-10-22T12:30:43","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T16:30:43","slug":"software-publishers-employ-a-small-fraction-of-software-programmers-and-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamie.workingagenda.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/26\/software-publishers-employ-a-small-fraction-of-software-programmers-and-engineers\/","title":{"rendered":"Software publishers employ a small fraction of software programmers and engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<abbr class=\"unapi-id\" title=\"\"><!-- &nbsp; --><\/abbr>\n<p>The availability of free software platforms may be more important to the economy than some U.S. policy makers acknowledge or appreciate.  <\/p>\n<p>Software publishers employ only 4 percent of the BLS defined category for &#8220;Computer and Mathematical Occupations,&#8221; and just 4.9 percent of occupation code for computer programmers.  In the BLS category for &#8220;Software Developers, Applications,&#8221; just 8.1 percent work in the &#8220;Software Publishing&#8221; sector.   This suggests the role of commercial software applications is only a relatively small element of value added work involving software.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Occupational Employment and Wages, May 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"1\" border=\"1\" width=\"\">\n<tr>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"left\"  >BLS Occupation Code<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\" width=\"75\" >Software Publishers<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\" width=\"75\"  >Other Employers<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\" width=\"75\"  >Total Employment<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\" width=\"75\"  >Percent working for Software Publishers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"left\"  >15-0000 Computer and Mathematical Occupations (Major Group)<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >129940<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >3154010<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >3283950<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >4.0%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"left\"  >15-1131 Computer Programmers<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >16420<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >317200<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >333620<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >4.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"left\"  >15-1132 Software Developers, Applications<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >40300<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >458980<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >499280<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >8.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"left\"  >15-1133 Software Developers, Systems Software<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >25240<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >353680<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >378920<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >6.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"left\"  >15-1111 Computer and Information Research Scientists<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >1470<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >23430<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >24900<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >5.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"left\"  >15-1121 Computer Systems Analysts<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >8330<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >487470<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >495800<\/td>\n<td  valign=\"bottom\"  align=\"right\"  >1.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The availability of free software platforms may be more important to the economy than some U.S. policy makers acknowledge or appreciate. Software publishers employ only 4 percent of the BLS defined category for &#8220;Computer and Mathematical Occupations,&#8221; and just 4.9 percent of occupation code for computer programmers. 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