7. Sales Growth
• Telecommunications has seen its sales grow
185% in the last three years. Qualcomm
revenue grew by $8.68B of the $9.78B in
growth.
• Biotech, the second largest industry, grew
85%. Life Technologies Corporation was the
revenue leader with $3.8B.
9. Job Growth
• Qualcomm lost 4% of its workforce which
reflects in the relatively low rise in
Telecommunication employees.
• The largest Hi-Tech job producers were
ViaSat, Cymer and Entropic Communications.
• BioTech jobs grew an outstanding 592% in the
last few years.
• The largest BioTech job producers were Life
Technologies, Senomyx and Synthetic
Genomics.