1. San Antonio
San Antonio is home to a former Air Force base that has since turned commercial, boasting the “largest concentration of IT workers in the area,” with a focus on engineering, cybersecurity, and robotics in the private sector and for national defense contractors, according to the San Antonio Report. The city gained some traction in attracting the talent during the pandemic, when remote work became widespread, with tech workers moving to the area to take advantage of the lower cost of living compared to Austin, the original Texas tech hub. It’s also home to Tech Port, which is San Antonio’s “vision for an innovation campus,” designed to support building a more connected future for the aerospace, energy, defense, cybersecurity, financial services, medicine, manufacturing, and supply-chain logistics industries.
The average tech salary in San Antonio is $112,057 per year — a 13.3% increase from 2022, according to Dice.
2. Philadelphia
Philadelphia is home to the Greater Philadelphia Region Precision Medicine Tech Hub, which is part of a recent government initiative to invest in technology hubs across the country. In October of last year, the Pennsylvania Tech Hub was unveiled as part of 31 inaugural tech hubs announced by the Biden-Harris administration, along with 29 Tech Hubs Strategy Development Grants. The area is home to more than 100 colleges, most notably the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University, with 54% of graduates choosing to stay in the Greater Philadelphia area — to compare, the Greater Boston area sees only a 42% retention rate of recent graduates, according to Select Greater Philadelphia. This makes it a prime area for recruiting and hiring new talent as the tech industry grows. Companies that hire tech workers in Philadelphia include Bank of America, MetLife, PwC, Ingage, Comcast Advertising, JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, Pfizer, SAP, and Lockheed Martin.
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