The US Labor Department projects that jobs for computer and mathematical scientists, a category that includes software engineers, will grow rapidly by 40 % from 2.5 million in 2002 to 3.5 million ten years later.
美國勞工部預估，包括程式設計在內，電腦、數學科學家的工作數量，自 2002 年的 250 萬個，十年後將快速擴增到 350 萬個，增幅達 40％。