Select tech workers in high demand in Idaho Valley, nation Some Boise-area companies say they are paying for top talent.

The tech job market nationwide hasn’t been this overheated since the dot-com bubble in the late 1990s.

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Thousands of people in Boise are unemployed and looking for work. But for high-tech workers with the right skills, work is looking for them.

They have the skills companies want for the booming fields of social media, mobile software and cloud computing. They can find multiple job opportunities in the Treasure Valley among a flourishing market of software startups and other tech companies.

"I’ve never had to worry about whether there was an opportunity or not" in the Valley, said Dave Nagoda, 36, a software developer at Boise’s Clearwater Analytics, which sells a system for tracking large investment portfolios. "I’ve never had to scramble."

BY SANDRA FORESTER AND PETE CAREY – [email protected] [email protected]

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