S/W ate the job market

hello@jodavaho.io (jodavaho) — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In the USA, there are:

Count	Discipline
370,000	civil engineers
370,000	industrial engineers
300,000	mechanical engineers
200,000	electrical engineers
77,000	computer engineers
68,000	aerospace engineers
23,000	biomedical engineers
23,000	physicists/astronomers
21,000	chemical engineers
2,000	mathematicians

There’s ~2-5 million software engineers in the USA (depending on how you count data science (math), etc. See for yourself!)

This means there are more software engineers than all other math/physics/engineering disciplines combined, and up to >10x the next highest engineering discipline.

At current 10% unemployment in software jobs, there’s possibly more unemployed s/w engs than there are engs in any other discipline.

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S/W ate the job market