Job Trends
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Labor Market Reports
Year-over-year BioSpace data show biopharma professionals faced increased competition for fewer employment opportunities during the first quarter of 2025.
The 9% average salary increase from 2023 to 2024 was the largest for life sciences professionals since 2021. Several factors could be behind the spike, including companies providing higher pay because bonuses and stock compensation went down.
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Although the job market did not pick up in April, layoffs were down year over year and month over month, according to BioSpace tallies. Meanwhile, Amgen, Novartis, Regeneron and Roche announced U.S. manufacturing investments that are sparking job creation.
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Sonoma Bio announced its plans to erect an 83,000-square-foot operations facility in Seattle, while Thermo Fisher opened a new viral vector manufacturing plant in Massachusetts.
Biogen expects to lay off a potential 1,000 staffers in an effort to cut about $1 billion in costs, according to The Boston Globe, while 10x Genomics and Talis Biomedical also cut staff.
The layoffs trend in the life sciences industry is continuing into the final months of 2022. See inside for details on which companies are reducing staff to increase cash flow.
AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV) today announced the European Commission (EC) approved RINVOQ® (upadacitinib 45 mg [induction dose] and 15 mg and 30 mg [maintenance doses]) for the treatment of adult patients with moderately to severely active ulcerative colitis who have had an inadequate response, lost response or were intolerant to either conventional therapy or a biologic agent.
Astellas is investing around $70 million, providing lab and co-working spaces to support current and future growth initiatives in the cell and gene therapy space for cancer and rare diseases.
Pfizer is looking to strengthen its grip on mRNA research and development with a $470 million new facility, and Eikon is planning to open a 25,000 facility. Both will be based in New York.
Cambridge, Massachusetts’ Kendall Square just got a little more crowded following the announcement that life sciences giant Bayer opened its new Research and Innovation Center.
In an overwhelming vote of support, the U.S. House of Representatives approved the creation of a new department within the National Institutes of Health that is focused on biomedical innovation.
Regeneron has broken ground on a $1.8 billion expansion of its Tarrytown, NY facilities that will add at least 1,000 new full-time jobs.
According to a recent report, the New York City Metro area is home to 7% of the U.S. population but contains 10% of all U.S. biochemists and biophysicists and 12% of U.S. chemists.