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Manufacturing: wages good but jobs down

Computers, aerospace, golf equipment lead the way

Last year, manufacturing jobs in San Diego County paid an average wage of $75,800, up stoutly from the average wage of $53,800 throughout the private sector, according to data compiled by the National University System Institute for Policy Research. Manufacturing jobs are 7.2 percent of county employment, compared with 8.8 percent nationally, according to Erik Bruvold of the institute.

However, manufacturing contributes a larger percentage of the region's annual output of goods and services: 8.7 percent. Since 2007, manufacturing as a percentage of the economy, adjusted for inflation, has grown 12.1 percent, while the rest has grown only 3.1 percent.

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Last year, there were 94,445 manufacturing jobs in the county. Computers and electronic products were 24,457 of those jobs; aerospace and shipbuilding, 13,720; and recreational goods (largely golf equipment centered around Carlsbad), 10,557. The average wage in computer and electronic jobs was $105,300, the highest — just beating out chemicals at $105,000.

Although manufacturing's contribution to local economic growth has been rising, the number of jobs has not. Manufacturing employment was 102,000 in 2007, notes Bruvold.

More than half the workers in the most common manufacturing jobs (70 percent of them) hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

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Last year, manufacturing jobs in San Diego County paid an average wage of $75,800, up stoutly from the average wage of $53,800 throughout the private sector, according to data compiled by the National University System Institute for Policy Research. Manufacturing jobs are 7.2 percent of county employment, compared with 8.8 percent nationally, according to Erik Bruvold of the institute.

However, manufacturing contributes a larger percentage of the region's annual output of goods and services: 8.7 percent. Since 2007, manufacturing as a percentage of the economy, adjusted for inflation, has grown 12.1 percent, while the rest has grown only 3.1 percent.

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Last year, there were 94,445 manufacturing jobs in the county. Computers and electronic products were 24,457 of those jobs; aerospace and shipbuilding, 13,720; and recreational goods (largely golf equipment centered around Carlsbad), 10,557. The average wage in computer and electronic jobs was $105,300, the highest — just beating out chemicals at $105,000.

Although manufacturing's contribution to local economic growth has been rising, the number of jobs has not. Manufacturing employment was 102,000 in 2007, notes Bruvold.

More than half the workers in the most common manufacturing jobs (70 percent of them) hold a bachelor's degree or higher.

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