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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.
Labor Market Trends
In 2025, made or projected biopharma workforce cuts affected about 42,700 employees, according to BioSpace tallies. BioSpace takes a deep dive into which companies and locations were impacted and speaks to experts about what to expect ahead—and why.
For the second month in a row, job postings on BioSpace increased in key biopharma disciplines. However, application rates also increased.
Biopharma professionals will probably find decreasing employment opportunities this month and next even as layoffs continue, based on BioSpace data. However, hundreds of open roles are expected this year in Massachusetts, and a job market turnaround could start late next year.
BioSpace has named 50 biopharma companies to its 2025 Best Places to Work list, including Moderna and Sutro Biopharma, whose executives share what makes their organizations special.
BioSpace’s third report on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging in life sciences examines dramatic shifts in attitude around diversity initiatives.
BioSpace has created guidelines on how biopharma organizations, large and small, can effectively support employee resource groups (ERGs), encouraging both their creation and ongoing participation.
In the final instalment of our Diversity in Life Sciences series, BioSpace provides life sciences organizations with practical solutions and benchmarking data to strengthen their DEI initiatives.
How does age affect employees’ experiences in the workplace? This report examines the intersection of age along with gender and other demographics.
RECRUITING
The opportunity to do interesting and meaningful work continues to be more valuable than money, according to more than 2,700 life science professionals who took BioSpace’s 2019 Ideal Employer survey.
According to the second biennial 2019 Life Sciences Ideal Employer Report by BioSpace, the top three most important attributes cited by life sciences professionals around the world are the opportunity to do interesting and meaningful work, a competitive salary and health benefits.
Practicing “ghosting” can easily demolish your business’ reputation and break down relationships between both potential clients and employees.
According to a new report by BioSpace, the life science leader in news and careers, more than 65% of life science professionals received a salary increase in the last year with the average increase being 4.4%.
There is something of a recurring theme among the life science, healthcare and biopharma industries: shortage of skilled employees will lead to a decrease in innovation.
For years, the biggest employers of science and engineering PhDs has been academic institutions. For example, according to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)’s biennial Survey of Doctoral Recipients, academia employed 11 percent more PhDs than the private sector in 1997.
BioSpace’s 2024 Salary Report explores the average salaries and salary trends of life sciences professionals.
WEBINARS
This discussion features DEIB leaders from California Life Sciences, MassBio, Eli Lilly and Takeda. We explore changing attitudes in the life sciences workforce, if organizations are adjusting either their DEIB or communication strategies, and how evolving philosophies around DEIB are impacting human resources and talent acquisition activities.