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Charlotte ranks among top 50 cities for tech talent in the U.S. and Canada

CHARLOTTE — Charlotte’s tech talent continues to impress, based on new data recently released by CBRE.

The annual report ranks the top 50 cities for tech talent in the United States and Canada. The rankings are based on data from CBRE’s own research, the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, among others. Charlotte ranked 27th on this year’s list. The San Francisco Bay Area, Seattle, Washington, D.C., Toronto and New York City rounded out the top five.

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Among the biggest takeaways from this year’s report was the amount of growth in tech talent among local people ages 23 to 38. Since 2014, Charlotte’s millennial tech workforce grew by 17% — or more than 85,400 people — making it eighth overall among the list’s 30 large tech talent markets.

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