Table 4. Employment of New PhD Recipients by Specialty  Artificial Intelligence/ Robotics Hardware/ Architecture Numerical Analysis/ Scientific Computing Programming Languages/ Compilers OS/Networks Software Engineering Theory/ Algorithms Graphics/ Human Interfaces Databases/ Information Systems Other/ Unknown Total North American PhD Granting Depts. Tenure-track 15 21 2 11 41 11 12 19 22 9 163 12.80% Researcher 7 1 3 2 4 2 3 2 5 4 33 2.60% Postdoc 32 2 5 7 10 4 19 9 6 20 114 8.90% Teaching Faculty 2 2 0 1 4 2 2 2 2 5 22 1.70% 332 26.00% "North American, Other Categories" Other CS/CE Dept. 9 3 4 5 14 4 10 2 6 9 66 5.20% Non-CS/CE Dept. 3 0 0 1 3 3 1 1 2 3 17 1.30% Industry 84 67 25 44 157 47 34 45 70 57 630 49.40% Government 10 2 4 0 3 1 0 3 1 8 32 2.50% Self-Employed 2 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 7 0.50% Unemployed 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 9 0.70% Other 1 1 0 0 4 2 2 1 4 1 16 1.30% 777 60.90% Outside North America Tenure-Track PhD Granting 3 0 2 2 10 7 3 5 4 3 39 3.10% Researcher PhD Granting 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 1 1 8 0.60% Postdoc PhD Granting 8 1 2 1 4 1 6 2 1 4 30 2.40% Teaching PhD Granting 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 4 11 0.90% Other CS/CE or Non CS/CE 0 1 0 0 1 2 3 0 1 1 9 0.70% Industry 4 5 1 2 14 1 2 4 1 3 37 2.90% Government 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 1 6 0.50% Other 1 3 0 0 3 2 1 1 2 14 27 2.10% 167 13.10% Total inside North America 167 99 43 72 241 76 87 85 121 118 1109 86.90% Total outside NA 22 10 5 6 35 13 16 16 13 31 167 13.10% Total Known Employment 189 109 48 78 276 89 103 101 134 149 1276 100.00% Unknown 13 11 5 2 29 9 7 13 7 127 223 Total 202 120 53 80 305 98 110 114 141 276 1499 "Source: Computing Research Association 2005-2006 Taulbee Survey, www.cra.org"