Industries/sectors are not occupational groups, though they sometimes share names, and particular industries will have specific occupational groups in which are more common to the industry than in the market as a whole.
They are explicitly talking about jobs in the tech industry/sector, not about jobs in tech-related occupational categories. Not skipping over key words avoids missing meaning.
Compensation for programming and engineering jobs is not connected to compensation for PR jobs. Compensation is based on what kind of job it is, not what sector it is in.
Mushing the two together makes for a meaningless article.
If you want a tech salary, get a STEM education and apply for a tech job.
> Compensation is based on what kind of job it is, not what sector it is in.
No, compensation is influenced by all three of sector, job type, and location (and a bunch of other things that aren't relevant to the discussion here), not job type alone.
It's funny that people here widely recognize that this is true of tech job types (that compensation is worse outside of tech hubs and outside of the tech industry), but you somehow don't realize that its true generally.
> Mushing the two together makes for a meaningless article
The article isn't mushing sector and job type together, its talking about sector and location (tech sector jobs in the Bay Area.) Bad reading comprehension confuses explicit reference to sector to some weird hybrid of sector and job type (or just the latter, as seen in your initial response before you migrated to the “mushing together” misreading), but the article is clear, explicit, and correct.
> If you want a tech salary, get a STEM education and apply for a tech job.
No one, and certainly not the article, is saying that non-tech jobs in the tech industry should expect similar pay to tech jobs in the industry (indeed, the article makes no normative argument at all); the article is reporting on a decline in pay affecting jobs in the tech industry in the Bay Area in a specified time period.
They are explicitly talking about jobs in the tech industry/sector, not about jobs in tech-related occupational categories. Not skipping over key words avoids missing meaning.