Reinventing Manufacturing

Reinventing Manufacturing
manufacturing establishments in 2014—the largest
share. Many of these firms are clustered in the corridors
between San Francisco, Santa Clara and Oakland.
Establishments such as Cisco Systems, Intel, Oracle, and
Advanced Micro Devices are large employers.
In the 2010–2014 time period, the Bay Area manufacturing
sector with the fastest growing employment was
Transportation Equipment Manufacturing, although it
remained a very small portion of overall manufacturing
employment in the region. This sector’s accelerated
employment change can be largely attributed to Tesla’s
emergence as a leader in electric vehicle production
and to the cluster of suppliers that has formed around
its Fremont factory.
16.1 percent (adding 3,292 jobs); Beverage Manufacturing
expanded by 17.0 percent (adding 3,019 jobs);
Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing grew by 7.7
percent (adding 1,451 jobs); and Machinery Manufacturing
increased by 16.9 percent (adding 2,413 jobs).
Beverage Manufacturing is the only one of these five
sectors that did not experience employment contraction
between 1990 and 2014 and therefore achieved a net
gain in jobs over the long term.
Measured by overall number of jobs, the five largest
Bay Area manufacturing sectors all experienced job
growth between 2010 and 2014: Computer & Electronic
Product Manufacturing grew by 3.6 percent
(adding 4,797 jobs); Food Manufacturing increased by
Bay Area Manufacturing Employment by Sector, 1990–2014
500,000
450,000
400,000
350,000
300,000
250,000
200,000
150,000
100,000
50,000
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Primary Metal Mfg.
Transportation Equipment Mfg.
Plastics & Rubber Products Mfg.
Miscellaneous Mfg.
Apparel, Textile, & Leather Mfg.
Chemical Mfg.
Furniture & Related Product Mfg.
Wood & Paper Products Mfg.
Petroleum & Coal Products Mfg.
Nonmetallic Mineral Product Mfg.
Printing & Related Support Activities
Medical Equipment & Supplies Mfg.
Machinery Mfg.
Pharmaceutical & Medicine Mfg.
Fabricated Metal Product Mfg.
Beverage Mfg.
Food Mfg.
Computer & Electronic Product Mfg.
Data Source: Quarterly Census of Employment & Wages, California EDD
Analysis: Bay Area Council Economic Institute
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