Pasadena, CA -- (SBWIRE) -- 10/01/2010 -- The total number of people employed in the tech sector has remained nearly constant from 2008 to 2009 even as six million Americans lost their jobs during that period.

The report comes from data taken from the American Community Survey (ACS), which is done by the Census Bureau every year. There were an estimated 3.472 million people doing computer and math related jobs in 2009, which was a little below the 3.475 million in 2008.

New Hampshire saw the biggest loss in the jobs in terms of percentage (-2.8 %), while Kentucky and North Carolina saw the biggest increase (+1.8 %). Overall, California remained the state with the most tech and math jobs with over 460,000 people employed in those two sectors.

The IT industry has hired 30,200 people since January 2010. The hiring represents an increase in the IT industry’s workforce by 0.5 percent. The total number of people employed in the tech industry in June 2010 stood at 5.78 million. This more current data has been gathered by TechAmerica Foundation, an industry group which keeps track of the IT workforce.

Asked about the employment situation in the tech industry, A. Harrison Barnes, CEO of InformationTechnologyCrossing, says “There are still several high paying jobs in the IT field, especially in Silicon Valley.” InformationTechnologyCrossing is a job aggregator site that focuses on jobs in the information technology sector. The site has been able to find over 40,000 jobs for the sector.