Fairfax leads N.Va. in IT sector growth

Published August 8, 2006 4:00am ET



Fairfax County added more than 2,200 professional services and information technology jobs between April and June — a figure that keeps the county on track to live up to its impressive employment projections during the next 25 years — according to figures released Friday by the Fairfax County Economic Development Authority.

“The continued strengthof the IT sector in Fairfax County is once again reflected in our quarterly job numbers,” authority President and CEO Gerry Gordon said. “I think the impressive nature of the growth is the number itself. … Any job in the primary economy will spin off two to three more jobs in the secondary economy.”

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