3% Unemployment Among Infosec Pros?

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By Eric Chabrow
Bank Info Security
January 5, 2013

After seven straight quarters of recording no joblessness among IT 
security professionals, an unpublished U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics 
report suggests a small number of information security experts are out 
of work and looking for jobs in the field.

BLS each quarter creates tables that breakdown employment data for 535 
occupation categories but doesn't publish them. They're available on 
request. The tables show a 3 percent unemployment rate for the fourth 
quarter of 2012 and a 0.9 percent jobless rate for the entire year among 
information security analysts, a catchall occupation category for 
professionals with a variety of IT security skills.

Don't take these percentages as gospel; BLS doesn't.

The data in the tables come from the government's Current Population 
Survey of American households that produces the monthly unemployment 
rate, but the sample size is too small to be deemed statistically 
reliable because very few households have someone living in them who 
works in IT security. BLS Economist Karen Kosanovich explains that 
occupations such as information security analysts with a base of fewer 
than 50,000 individuals for annual averages and 75,000 for quarterly 
averages don't meet the bureau's publication standards.

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