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EVERY BUSINESS
A N D S O M E O N E E L S E W H O B E L I E V E D I N I T.
B I O M E D I C A L F A C T B O O K
Healthcare industry average annual salary
Worcester County $42,499 $44,445 $45,658 $45,899 $46,808 $47,769 $46,628 $47,203 $48,024 $48,481 $48,584 $49,449 $50,670
U.S. $40,686 $42,154 $43,201 $43,725 $44,494 $45,406 $44,909 $45,857 $47,296 $47,956 $49,076 $50,326 $51,792
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
2009 1,174 1,249 866 3,289
2010 1,248 1,206 1,141 3,595 9.3% -1.4%
2011 1,842 701 1,021 3,564 -0.9% -0.6%
2012 1,732 628 1,094 3,454 -3.1% 0.4%
2013 1,668 668 652 2,988 -13.5% 0.9%
2014 1,647 1,287 612 3,546 18.7% 1.2%
2015 1,775 1,743 612 4,130 16.5% 1.6%
2016 1,861 1,712 654 4,227 2.3% 2.5%
2017 1,698 1,318 632 3,648 -13.7% 2.2%
2018 1,817 1,349 637 3,803 4.2% 3.0%
2019 1,964 1,683 685 4,332 13.9% 5.1%
Pharmaceutical Medical % change
R&D medicine equipment & Worcester % change
Year biotechnology manufacturing supplies manufacturing Total County nationally
Biomedical employment, in Worcester County
2009 2.55% 1.90%
2010 2.09% 1.76%
2011 1.79% 1.61%
2012 2.69% 1.66%
2013 7.68% 4.19%
2014 2.86% 1.68%
2015 2.86% 2.52%
2016 2.30% 2.74%
2017 3.71% 2.21%
2018 1.63% 1.94%
2019 2.45% 2.16%
Healthcare and
social servicement
employment growth,
year-over-year
Worcester County National
employment employment
Year growth growth
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census
of Employment and Wages
Worcester County employed 73,189
people in the healthcare and social
services industry at the end of 2018,
the highest of any industry in the
county.
