CBRE's annual tech jobs report miscounts US vs Canada data, analyst warns
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-08-20
Every year CBRE's "Tech by city" report compares US and Canadian job-title data improperly and draws heavy press coverage. The author notes the US labor force is 169m vs Canada's 21m; ICT is 5.9% of US GDP vs 5.1% in Canada, yet the report claims tech is only 3.7% of the US workforce but 6.1% of Canada's — clearly wrong. Such "corporate reports that are basically advertising" aren't held to academic standards, and policymakers should be careful relying on them: Calgary's tech jobs did not grow 56% in one year.
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