San Diego, California Market Profile Quick facts about San Diego 1 With its warm, year-round climate, 50 miles of sun-soaked coastline and world-famous attractions, San Diego is a top tourist destination. But this Southern California metropolis with a laid-back vibe is also home to cutting-edge businesses for telecommunications, biotechnology, software, electronics and other major innovative industries. San Diego is the eighth-largest city in the United States and the second-largest in California. Selected as one -- and the only North American -- city named among National Geographic s World Smart Cities (2015) Rated No. 2 as the Most Inventive City in the World (Forbes 2013) Rated No. 4 among Top Life Science and Biosciences locations (Jones Lang LaSalle 2015) Rated No. 1 in concentration of military/defense assets in the world (San Diego Military Advisory Council) Home to University of California San Diego (UCSD), ranked No. 3 public university in the United States, No. 17 in the world (World University Rankings 2016) Ranked No. 1 for lowest average commute times among peer cities (Talent, Where San Diego Stands, 2016) Called Best Place to Launch a Startup (Forbes 2014) 80-plus educational and research institutes in the region The median age of San Diego's population is 34.9, with 25 percent of its residents younger than 20 and only 12 percent older than 64, according to SANDAG. More than 100 languages are spoken by San Diego residents who have come from all parts of the world to live here. 1 https://www.discoverphl.com/meet/choose-philadelphia/facts-and-figures/ 1
Table 1: San Diego s largest employers: Employers Employees Employer, continued Employees United States Navy 34,185 Qualcomm, Inc 11,830 University of California, San Diego 30,130 Scripps Health 11,807 County of San Diego 19,131 City of San Diego 11,454 Sharp Healthcare 17,976 Kaiser Permanente 9,066 San Diego Unified School District 13,815 San Diego Community College District 6,564 Source: United States Department of Labor Career One Stop Business Finder Demographics Table 2: San Diego-Carlsbad, CA population by race & ethnicity, Race/Ethnicity Population Percent White, Non-Hispanic 1,530,191 45.6% White, Hispanic 1,008,979 30.1% Asian, Non-Hispanic 393,493 11.7% All Other 262,406 7.8% Black, Non-Hispanic 158,237 4.7% Source: Economic Modeling Specialists International Table 3: San Diego-Carlsbad, CA population by education, : Education Level Population Percent Graduate Degree+ 302,021 13.3% High School Diploma 436,200 19.2% Bachelor s Degree 498,239 22.0% Some College 516,801 22.8% 9 th Grade to 12 th Grade 134,153 5.9% Associate s Degree 182,919 8.1% Less than 9 th Grade 196,970 8.7% Source: Economic Modeling Specialists International 2
Population and labor market 2 Population: 3,317,749 Civilian labor force: 1,576,900 Unemployment rate: 3.3% (December ) Average annual pay: $$58,198 (U.S. average is $53,621) Labor Inventory San Diego s labor market is dominated by five sectors: Government, Health Care and Social Assistance, and Accommodation and Food Services, which together account for more than 51% of all jobs in the San Diego market. Table 4: San Diego employment by industry: Description Jobs Location Quotient Earnings Per Job Establish ments Government 341,953 1.35 $62,773 1,909 Health Care and Social Assistance 166,045 0.84 $51,334 28,727 Accommodation and Food Services 161,252 1.17 $23,797 6,891 Retail Trade 146,009 0.89 $32,947 8,587 Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 128,349 1.38 $105,409 13,225 Manufacturing 107,086 0.84 $83,277 3,145 Administrative/Support and Waste Management/Remediation 82,470 0.89 $43,439 4,180 Construction 77,729 1.09 $63,540 6,592 Description Jobs Location Quotient Earnings Per Job Establish ments Other Services 60,030 0.98 $30,756 7,264 Finance and Insurance 45,292 0.74 $92,800 4,472 Wholesale Trade 44,301 0.74 $76,694 3,951 Educational Services 33,548 0.84 $44,836 1,205 Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation 28,567 1.24 $37,447 1,167 Real Estate and Rental and Leasing 27,835 1.24 $58,587 5,186 2 United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages 3
Transportation and Warehousing 23,778 0.46 $44,952 1,451 Information 23,150 0.80 $94,178 1,135 Management of Companies and Enterprises 21,133 0.90 $107,434 377 Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting 9,028 0.61 $36,530 604 Unclassified Industry 7,316 2.53 $47,628 6,604 Utilities 5,365 0.92 $129,219 89 Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction 298 0.05 $70,735 37 Source: United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and Economic Modeling Specialists International San Diego Employment by Industry Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 6 % Other Services 5 % Construction 6 % Finance and Insurance 3 % Government 26 % Manufacturing 8 % Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 10 % Retail Trade 11 % Accommodation and Food Services 12 % Health Care and Social Assistance 13 % 4
A number of industries of particular interest to Laser and Photonics Technicians have a significant presence in San Diego. Table 5: Employment and wage data, select industries, San Diego, : Description Manufacturing Jobs Location Quotient Avg. Earnings Per Job Establish ments Navigational/Measuring/Electromedical Control Instruments 12,826 3.17 $111,364 178 Medical equipment and supplies 6,246 1.95 $85,761 153 Semiconductor and Other Electronic Components 5,590 1.50 $108,651 124 Communications Equipment 4,962 5.69 $120,889 71 Commercial and service industry machinery 1,449 1.56 $67,387 44 Other Electrical Equipment and Component 1,277 0.92 $58,228 48 Electrical Equipment 360 0.25 $80,745 15 Electric Lighting Equipment 405 0.78 $63,474 25 Computer and Peripheral Equipment 2,278 1.30 $165,508 40 Manufacturing and Reproducing Magnetic and Optical Media 60 0.40 $70,438 10 Household Appliance 122 0.18 $55,911 5 Audio and Video Equipment 1,392 6.53 $130,531 18 Wholesale Trade Professional/commercial equipment merchant wholesalers 5,722 0.89 $105,555 404 Wholesale electronic markets and agents and brokers 5,634 0.60 $86,246 705 Health Care Offices of physicians 29,288 1.12 $88,117 2,675 Offices of dentists 10,483 1.09 $47,968 1,802 Medical and diagnostic laboratories 5,362 1.92 $85,441 177 Other Electronic and precision equipment repair and maintenance 748 0.70 $58,848 132 Commercial and industrial machinery and equipment rental and leasing 1,882 1.25 $64,622 139 Source: United States Bureau of Labor Statistics and Economic Modeling Specialists International 5
Employers We queried job postings across the internet for the word technician plus either laser, photonic, or photonics in the San Diego-Carlsbad, CA market and found 1,155 recent postings. Employer Postings Employer, continued Postings General Atomics 505 GKN Group 7 Scripps Health 53 The Triumph Group 6 Illumina 33 Vought Aircraft 6 Kindred Healthcare 26 ViaSat 6 R&E Automated Systems LLC 23 VSP 6 Cymer, Inc. 21 Group Health Cooperative 5 Kaiser Permanente 20 Hewlett-Packard Company 5 Sharp HealthCare 20 Naval Medical Command 5 Argen Corporation 19 Contingent Network Services 5 DAYLIGHT SOLUTIONS 19 Affordable Engineering Services, LLC 5 Triumph Group, Inc. 19 Barona Valley Ranch Resort & Casino 5 City Of San Diego 17 Granite Services Inc 5 CVS Health 16 Thumbtack 5 Cymer, An ASML Company 15 Sharp Outpatient Pavilion 5 University of California - San Diego 13 Sharp Hospital 5 Northrop Grumman 11 Qualcomm 4 Viejas Enterprise 11 Scripps 4 L-3 Communications 10 Healthtronics 4 6
Viejas Casino and Resort 10 Thor Solutions LLC 4 Gkn Sinter Metals 9 Vision Group Holdings 4 VSP Global 9 University Of Phoenix 3 RehabCare 8 Digirad Corporation 3 Universal Hospital Services, Inc. 8 Callaway Golf 3 Volcano Corporation 8 Fortec Medical 3 Philips 7 Melles Griot 3 Source: CEB Talent Neuron 7
Education and Training Relevant to Laser and Photonics Technicians The University of California-San Diego s Photonics/Opto-electronics Program By bringing together optical and electronic technologies, research in the photonics/opto-electronics program at UCSD is aimed at extending the performance of communication and computing systems, imaging and sensing systems, and energy harvesting systems beyond what have been achieved so far. Photonics is already revolutionizing areas such as the information highway infrastructure, the entertainment and computing industry, and advanced medical imaging and defense systems critical to US global competitiveness. The present research program at UCSD is highly interdisciplinary, involving not only materials scientists and device engineers, but also optical component and system engineers, computer engineers and scientists and network specialists. Many of our research projects are carried out in close collaboration with industrial partners for successful technology transfer. Along with well funded research programs and the strong interest of faculty members, the photonics/opto-electronics program enjoys state-of-the-art facilities for advanced optical characterizations and nano-scale fabrications. Presently the program involves more than 50 Ph.D students and 10 post doctoral researchers. 8
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