Today's Washington Post includes "Mining Coal Country for Tech Workers," which says that Russell County is "where government contractors CGI-AMS Inc. and Northrop Grumman Corp. will in the next few months start building multimillion-dollar technology centers and hire hundreds of software engineers at salaries far above the region's average, bringing a taste of Washington's lucrative tech sector to a coal country enclave."
The gist of the article is that labor costs are forcing tech jobs out of the D.C. area into rural areas.
The article notes: "The average salary for the 300 people CGI-AMS expects to hire in Lebanon, for instance, will be $50,000 -- far above the town's $27,606 average annual wage but about half the salary an advanced software developer in Northern Virginia might earn."
The article also says: "Speculation about when a Starbucks will appear is rampant on the streets of Lebanon."
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