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Labor Market Reports
BioSpace’s 2026 U.S. Life Sciences Employment Outlook examines the state of the biopharma workforce amid ongoing funding pressure, elevated layoffs and cautious hiring sentiment, while highlighting early signals of stabilization and cautious optimism for the year ahead.
BioSpace’s 2025 Q4 U.S. Life Sciences Job Market update highlights early signs of stabilization in biopharma hiring, with modest gains in job postings, slowing layoffs, and cautiously improving sentiment heading into 2026.
BioSpace’s Q3 2025 U.S. Life Sciences Job Market Report reveals a turbulent quarter for biopharma hiring, with record declines in job postings, rising layoffs, and cautious employer sentiment shaping the industry’s employment landscape.
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More biopharma organizations were actively recruiting at the end of 2025 than 2024, based on the new BioSpace employment outlook report. Areas in demand this year include research and development and clinical. Organizations are also prioritizing artificial intelligence hires.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is hoping to fill numerous vacancies at the regulatory agency. In June, the FDA laid out some of its hiring needs, as well as its approach to attracting top-quality talent in a report to Congress.
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After a slight delay, things remain on schedule for Alnylam’s new $200 million manufacturing facility. The company expects the site to open in late 2019, which could follow regulatory approval of patisiran, its RNAi treatment for Hereditary ATTR Amyloidosis.
As its core semiconductor and smartphone businesses slow down, South Korea’s Samsung Group has announced a broad investment into new areas. Those areas include artificial intelligence (AI), 5G mobile technology, electronic components for the automotive industry, and biopharmaceuticals.
This week, the Business Journals compiled a list of the 25 companies across the United States with the highest median salary for employees. According to the list, median salaries for these companies ranked from $198,000 to $495,000. Of those companies listed, more than half were in the pharma or biotech industries.