{"slug": "nyc-surpasses-san-francisco-as-biggest-tech-talent-hub-study-shows", "title": "NYC surpasses San Francisco as biggest tech talent hub, study shows", "summary": "New York City surpassed San Francisco as the largest U.S. tech talent hub, with 394,300 tech workers in 2025 versus 375,730 in the Bay Area, according to CBRE's 'Scoring Tech Talent' report. The shift, driven by AI job growth and Bay Area cuts, marked the first time in the report's 13-year history that New York led by headcount. CBRE's Colin Yasukochi noted that AI is reshaping tech job growth, with AI jobs outpacing the broader tech category, which grew 1.8% last year.", "body_md": "# NYC surpasses San Francisco as biggest tech talent hub, study shows\n\nSee more of our coverage in your search results.\n\n[Add The New York Post on Google](https://www.google.com/preferences/source?q=nypost.com)\n\nNew York City has surpassed San Francisco as the largest hub of tech talent in the country – and the rise of artificial intelligence is a key factor in the boom, according to new research.\n\nThe number of tech workers based in the New York metro area was 394,300 in 2025, [CBRE’s research showed](https://www.cbre.com/insights/books/scoring-tech-talent-2026) this week. Meanwhile, the San Francisco Bay area had 375,730 workers last year.\n\n“The story there is that there’s been cuts in the Bay Area, so the tech industry has contracted the size of the tech talent workforce, and the finance sector [in New York] has hired a lot of tech talent and a lot of AI workers,” Colin Yasukochi, executive director of CBRE’s Tech Insights Center, [told CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/21/new-york-san-francisco-tech-talent-cbre.html).\n\nThe shift marked the first time in the 13-year history of CBRE’s “Scoring Tech Talent” report that New York’s tech scene – known affectionately as “Silicon Alley” – has exceeded San Francisco’s by headcount.\n\nMost of the tech sector’s biggest AI players, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta, maintain significant office space in New York.\n\n[As The Post reported](https://nypost.com/2026/07/08/business/anthropic-leases-new-nyc-office-building-set-to-double-local-workforce-by-end-of-year/), Anthropic has released an entire office building in Manhattan’s Hudson Square and plans to double its local workforce to more than 1,000 employees by the end of this year.\n\nBoth New York and San Francisco have shown signs of significant growth, with each adding more than 20,000 AI-related jobs since the middle of 2025, according to CBRE’s data.\n\nSmaller cities like Philadelphia, Washington, DC, Atlanta, Chicago and Dallas-Fort Worth also posted large gains in their AI workforces.\n\n“There’s no denying that AI is reshaping the tech industry and job growth in general,” Yasukochi added in a statement. “Growth of AI jobs in the U.S. far outpaced the broader tech-talent category, which expanded by 1.8% last year even as the tech industry cut some non-AI jobs.”\n\nSan Francisco still outpaced New York in terms of CBRE’s overall tech talent rankings, which are weighted based on various factors, including talent concentration and research and development investment, the firm said.\n\nSan Francisco ranked first in the overall rankings, followed by Seattle and Toronto. New York ranked fourth.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nyc-surpasses-san-francisco-as-biggest-tech-talent-hub-study-shows", "canonical_source": "https://nypost.com/2026/08/21/business/nyc-surpasses-san-francisco-as-biggest-tech-talent-hub-study-shows/", "published_at": "2026-08-21 17:24:35+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-21 17:43:54.419574+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["New York City", "San Francisco", "CBRE", "Colin Yasukochi", "Anthropic", "OpenAI", "Google", "Meta"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nyc-surpasses-san-francisco-as-biggest-tech-talent-hub-study-shows", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nyc-surpasses-san-francisco-as-biggest-tech-talent-hub-study-shows.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nyc-surpasses-san-francisco-as-biggest-tech-talent-hub-study-shows.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nyc-surpasses-san-francisco-as-biggest-tech-talent-hub-study-shows.jsonld"}}