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The State of Working Pennsylvania 2004 33 State Loses More Than 230,000 Manufacturing Jobs Since 1990 Except for transitory gains in 1994-95 and 1997-98, Pennsylvania lost manufacturing jobs in every year from 1990-2003 (Figure 21). (This is the longest period for which comparable annual data are available.) During the entire 1990-2003 period the state lost 231,600 manufacturing jobs, of which 146,800 were lost since 2000. Between 1990 and 2003 Pennsylvania lost 24.5 percent of its manufacturing jobs. This was the ninth-highest rate of manufacturing job loss among all states. Pennsylvania lost a much greater proportion of its manufacturing jobs than the nation as whole, which lost 17.9 percent of its manufacturing jobs during that time. Compared to those of neighboring states Pennsylvania’s rate of manufacturing job loss was lower than those of New York, New Jersey, and Maryland but higher than those of Delaware, West Virginia, and Ohio (Figure 22). Despite Pennsylvania’s enormous long-term loss of manufacturing jobs, manufacturing remains important to the state’s economy. In 2003, 12.8 percent of Pennsylvania’s jobs were manufacturing jobs. This percentage exceeded the national average of 11.2 percent and put Pennsylvania 16 th - highest among all states in the percentage of its jobs that were in manufacturing. (Pennsylvania’s manufacturing job percentage in 1990 was 16.2 percent, 15 th -highest among all states.) Pennsylvania’s manufacturing job percentage in 2003 was higher than those of all its neighboring states except Ohio (Figure 23). Small Metro Areas Hit Hardest By Manufacturing Job Losses Pennsylvania’s smaller metropolitan areas (all metropolitan areas other than Philadelphia and Pittsburgh) suffered even more than the state as a whole from losses of manufacturing jobs. From 1990-2003 all twelve of the state’s smaller metropolitan areas lost manufacturing jobs. Eight of the twelve lost greater percentages of their manufacturing jobs than did the state as a whole, as did the City of Philadelphia and the entire Philadelphia metropolitan area (Figure 24). Among the smaller metropolitan areas the greatest percentage losses of manufacturing jobs occurred in Johnstown (which lost 35.3 percent of its manufacturing jobs) and Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton (31 percent loss). The Philadelphia
The State of Working Pennsylvania 2004 34 Table 10. Manufacturing Employment in Pennsylvania Metropolitan Areas (thousands) 1990 1995 2000 2002 2003 Percent Change 1990-2003 Percent of Total Employment 2003 York 48.7 47.4 45.8 41.4 39.3 -19.3% 23.5% Williamsport 14.8 13.2 13.7 12.8 12.4 -16.2 23.3 Lancaster 58.1 56.8 56.3 50.2 46.9 -19.3 20.6 Reading 44.4 42.8 41.5 35.2 32.4 -27.0 19.7 Erie 35.5 34.2 33.4 27.7 25.3 -28.7 19.5 Sharon 12.1 11 11.2 9.6 9 -25.6 18.2 Scranton 60.6 54.1 52.6 45.5 43.9 -27.6 15.7 Allentown 60.4 54.2 51.2 45.5 41.7 -31.0 14.5 Altoona 10.0 10.2 10.3 8.8 8.6 -14.0 14.0 Johnstown 13.9 13.1 12.2 9.8 9 -35.3 10.4 Harrisburg 49.3 45.5 41.4 36.6 35.6 -27.8 9.7 Pittsburgh 127.3 119.8 126.3 112.3 106.8 -16.1 9.6 Philadelphia (all PMSA including NJ) 320.1 276.2 267 235.8 222.8 -30.4 9.3 State College 7.9 8.1 8.1 6.6 5.7 -27.8 8.0 Source: KRC analysis of CES data.
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