I see.  I have always found percentage confusing when used in such constructions.   From your comment, I suspect that you interpret 126% higher to mean that the tech wage is 226 percent of the average wage.  So Y is X % higher than Z means Y= ((X+100)/100)*Z.  Is this what you mean?  So 45K * 2.26 = 102K, which is close to what the reporter gave as the average tech salary.

All this is well and good.  But my essential point was that I do not believe the given average tech salary for a minute.  Having worked in tech all my life, the manufacturing operators and such who comprise so many of the tech workers tend to earn about 15-20/hour, far less than 105K/year.  It may be that the average tech salary is inflated by the incomes of the extremely rich company owners.  Perhaps the reporter should give the median tech income to tell us what the typical tech workers make.