Tech sector finds mixed bag in Phoenix, U.S. firms cut payroll - Denver Business Journal:

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A study released Mondat by Challenger, Gray & Christmas found that tech industr layoffs in the second quarter amountefdto 33,891 in the a 60 percent drop from the firsrt quarter. The study also found the second-quarte r job cuts were about equapl to the second quarterof 2008, befor the worst of the financial crisix rocked the economy. The local technologty sector has been upand down, depending on the according to Arizona Workforce, a researchy publication by the Arizona Department of Commerce. Computerr and electronic parts manufacturers droppeeabout 1,200 jobs from May 2008 to but aerospace manufacturers added about 500.
Also down was telecommunications, whicnh shed about 1,600 jobs in the Phoenix area from May 2008 to and professional, scientific and technical services, which lost nearl y 10 percent of the sector’ss May 2008 work force of roughl y 101,000 in the past At the same time, the report shows that lossesx from April to May were much smallef or flat in most of those sectors. “The downturn in the economy has affectex each sector ofthe high-tech industry said Jim Garnett, executive director for TechAmericw in Phoenix. “In a recent ranking by the Bureaui ofLabor Statistics, while Arizona’s manufacturing employmeny is down over the year by 5.
1 percent, the statd had one of the smallesgt percentage losses compared to all states. From April to May, computef and electronic parts lost 200 jobs while aerospace gainef300 jobs,” he said. Although the rate of layoffs appears to be the U.S. tech industry lost 118,108 jobs in the firsrt six monthsof 2009, the largest decline in the past seve years.