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Trade, and Finance & Real Estate. The opportunity to educate local residents to
fill these needed and desirable positions is clear.
Sub-section B:
INDUSTRY SPECIFIC OVERVIEW
MANUFACTURING & MAQUILADORAS
Table 5.3 provides an overview of the strength of Cameron County’s
manufacturing base by cluster (as of Texas Labor Market 2000 data) and
includes the following information:
⇒ Description of manufacturing jobs by cluster
⇒ Shift-share classification of each cluster
⇒ Numbers of employees and establishments, or businesses, in each
cluster
⇒ Relative wages, expressed as a percent of the average annual private
wage in Cameron County
⇒ Information about the concentration of manufacturing jobs in each
cluster in the Texas economy
Of the 111,467 jobs in Cameron County in 2000, 12,701 were manufacturingrelated.
As previously noted, the share of the local workforce employed in
Textiles & Apparels and Transportation equipment is above the national average
while Food Products and Electronics hovered at the national average. The share
of the local workforce employed in manufacturing overall is below the national
average with the region having no meaningful employment numbers for the
bottom five clusters of semiconductors, telecommunications equipment,
agribusiness, energy resources, and computers and peripherals.
Table 5. 3. Manufacturing Jobs, 2000: Cameron County and Texas
CAMERON COUNTY TEXAS
Cluster Name Shift-Share Jobs Firms LQ Wage Share Jobs Firms LQ
Textiles & Apparels Challenge 4,398 30 4.24 91% 53,198 1,499 0.60
Transportation Equipment Challenge 1.954 31 1.54 175% 40,176 795 0.37
Food Products Limitation 1,549 42 1.08 115% 99,958 1,508 0.81
Electronics Challenge 693 14 0.97 170% 44,371 870 0.73
Industrial Supplies Challenge 1,139 51 0.68 133% 110,676 4,397 0.78
Materials Limitation 1,265 40 0.58 136% 149,549 4,167 0.79
Construction Asset 198 8 0.43 110% 47,185 1,040 1.20
Mass Media Challenge 523 26 0.40 115% 76,252 4,096 0.68
Chemicals & Plastics Limitation 526 24 0.34 132% 157,744 2,507 1.20
Consumer Goods Challenge 242 16 0.25 96% 51,223 1,822 0.62
Aerospace & Defense Limitation 116 3 0.19 347% 54,817 324 1.04
Biotechnology Asset 56 3 0.11 114% 22,084 401 0.50
Industrial Machinery Challenge 36 4 0.07 119% 28,570 505 0.63
Semiconductors Asset 4 -- 0.02 122% 48,567 159 2.37
Telecom Equipment Asset 3 -- 0.01 93% 36,753 265 1.57
Agribusiness NA -- -- 0 NA 4,467 123 0.49
Energy Resources NA -- -- 0 NA 26,194 514 8.96
Computers & Peripherals Limitation -- -- 0 NA 35,757 139 1.42
Manufacturing Jobs Limitation 12,701 294 0.84 $24,400 1,087,541 25,131 0.84
Total Jobs All Sectors 111,467 5,665 $19,500 9,562,882 473,705
Source: Minnesota IMPLAN Group, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Texas Labor Market Information
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