Innovative companies across the state such as Avista and Zulily have made Washington one of the leaders in the country in the concentration of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) jobs.
Washington’s many technology employers are hungry for qualified workers, from software engineers at Microsoft’s campus in Redmond to the folks who install and maintain the systems that keep buildings running in downtown Spokane to nuclear physicists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland to agricultural workers in Yakima Valley.
