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This article uses matched employer‐employee data for the State of Georgia to examine workers' earnings experience through the information technology (IT) sector's employment boom of the mid‐1990s and bust in the early 2000s. The results show that even after controlling for pre‐boom individual characteristics, transitioning out of the IT sector to a non‐IT industry generally resulted in a large wage penalty. However, IT service workers who transitioned to a non‐IT industry still fared better than workers who took a non‐IT employment path. For IT manufacturing workers, there is no benefit to having been touched by technology, likely because of the nontransferability of manufacturing experience to other industries.