Double digit salary gains for tech workers in some markets from 2010 to 2011

The second annual nationwide salary review is contained in the annual study of the African-American cutting edge labor force, contractor base and educational demographics.  

Workers in the Washington, D.C. and New York City markets saw their average monthly wages decline by ten percent from 2010 to 2011.

In Santa Clara County, average monthly earnings for African-Americans in information industries rose from $11.794 in 2010 to $13,125 from 2010 to 2011.

King County, WA workers showed a gain from $11,508 to $12.757 in average monthly earnings from 2010 to 2011.

Yet in Kings (Manhattan), Queens and Bronx counties of New York City, and suburban Westchester and Essex, NJ, average monthly earnings declined.

In Manhattan, the average fell $592 per month from $4,949 in 2010 to $4,357 in 2011.

Silicon Ceiling 12 is available as part of the registration package for Innovation & Equity 2013: Keeping America First in Technology: Public Innovation and Supplier Diversity Jan. 15, 2013, the 13th annual symposium for the 50 Most Important African-Americans in Technology in Washington, D.C.