The Seattle-Redmond-Bellevue “Triangle” is proving to offer all the right angles for those seeking employment in the Tech and Internet sectors, and top paying jobs at that!
According to the payroll index at PayScale.com, Seattle has experienced the largest increase in overall salaries in the U.S. this past year.
Great coffee aside, Forbes reports that a Software Quality Assurance Engineer is the “happiest job in America.” Forbes partnered with the job aggregator site Indeed.com to find the 25 technology companies that are hiring the most right now for jobs that pay $60,000 a year, or more.
Heading the list with 1,521 unique job postings: Microsoft. The Redmond juggernaut is looking to take on software developers, network administrators, designers, and engineers, among other specialties. Rounding out the top three is another area contender, Amazon.com with more than 1,325 job openings!
Watch the Seattle24x7 Internet Jobs Board for many of these upcoming announcements. [24×7]
“The Pitch” Beats “Huh?” to Bravo Reality TV
Seattle ad man Tracy Wong, had what could best be described as the most auspicious lead-in to a network television show about the advertising industry — in history!
Wong was one of the “Reality stars” of “The Pitch,” a new series airing on the Bravo network. which was sneak previewed following the debut of a first-run, original episode of Mad Men, television’s hottest and most critically-acclaimed dramatic series.
Check out our “People” story this week on how Wong, creative chief at WDCW, compares with Don Draper in his risk profile and creative firepower.
Next up on Bravo is none other than Seattle-based Cheezburger Network founder, Ben Huh, in a new, meme-styled comedy show affectionately entitled “Huh?”
Bravo will go inside the office of Huh and his eclectic staff at icanhascheezburger.com, one of the largest humor publishers on the Internet loved for their popular LOLs and FAILs.
It seems only fair that Seattle get a modicum of TV coverage since Bravo is also about to debut “Silicon Valley,” a show featuring Randi Zuckerberg sister of TIME magazine’s 2012 Person of the Year and the CEO of Facebook.
We can think of a number of other Seattle start-ups and industry standard-bearers that would make for stimulating Bravo content. We’ll have to add those “Pitches” to our list.
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