Compared to full-steam-ahead Silicon Valley, tech talent growth in Philadelphia follows a more slow-and-steady cadence, with plenty of room to grow — and that room means the city will likely be better off in the long run.

National real estate services firm CBRE’s annual tech talent rankings placed Philadelphia at #22 on its list of most promising North American metro areas for attracting and cultivating tech talent, for the second year in a row.

To calculate its rankings, CBRE used averages over a five-year period in order to ensure that events like, for instance, a major tech firm moving into a city and hiring a bunch of workers in one year would not cause an outlier in data over time.

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