How to begin a career in the
Manufacturing Field
Central New York has been known for generations as a manufacturing area. Today many companies are still involved in this field. This industry requires many levels of careers to function properly. This website will explores jobs in the following sectors: Executive Management, Administration and Support, Supply Chain, Operations, Customer Support, Quality, Facility Support.
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Introduction to the Manufacturing Field
Manufacturing accounts for 10.5% of all jobs in New York State. In New York, each manufacturing job supports 2.67 jobs in other sectors. Manufacturing is the wealth generating sector of the economy. Manufacturing jobs pay more, generate better benefits, and stimulate the most high technology growth through research and development and productivity improvements. The Manufacturers Association advocates for growing and developing the Manufacturing sector, a critical component of a vibrant New York economy.
Manufacturing Fast Facts
Real output of manufacturing in the United States has been growing at an annual pace of almost 4% since 1991, faster than overall GDP growth. (Source: The Economist, October 2006)
According to economists, each industrial job indirectly creates two or more other jobs in supplier firms, in companies that sell goods or services to workers and their families, and in government, varying from region to region based on pay, benefits, and other factors. The national average job multiplier of one manufacturing job is 2.34 jobs created in other sectors – Upstate New York is even higher, at 2.67. (Source: The Public Policy Institute of New York)
Measured in constant prices, the share of manufacturing in GDP has been broadly unchanged in the US, and in developed countries as a whole, since 1980. (Source: The Economist, October 2006)
Manufacturing productivity begin to pull ahead of overall productivity twenty years ago, doubling since 1980. We can directly trace the low inflation economy of the 1990s to these leaps in productivity that originated in manufacturing. (Source: NAM)
Manufacturing jobs pay about $54,000 a year, with benefits, 20 percent more than the average compensation in the United States. (Source: NAM)
Manufacturing contributes 62% of the R&D in the country, while the service sector contributes only 38% of the R&D. (Source: NAM)