Life Sciences 2020: The Future is Here

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Life Sciences Workforce

New Jersey stands out as one of the top regions for life sciences talent because of its history as a home for major pharmaceutical manufacturers. When it comes to the growth of the talent pool, a different picture emerges. The fastest growth in the talent pool over the past decade has been in the strongest life sciences markets in the U.S.: Boston/ Cambridge, San Francisco/Peninsula and Oakland/East Bay. LIFE SCIENCES TALENT GROWTH BY CITY (2010-2019)

Cities and metropolitan areas that are attractive to life sciences companies are those that have the talent base that those companies need—a life sciences workforce that they can tap into. To illustrate this we identified 18 job categories that have skills that can be used in life sciences. (For a full list, see appendix). There are approximately 594,000 people in the U.S. with these job skills, and 195,000 of them are in our top 12 life sciences markets.

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LIFE SCIENCES TALENT POOL BY CITY (2019)

Number of Persons

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New York City

Seattle

Chicago

Research Triangle

Baltimore

Boston /

San Diego

Cambridge

New Jersey

Philadelphia

Number of Persons

Washington DC / Suburban MD

San Francisco /

0 5,000

Oakland / Berkeley

Source: EMSI