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San Jose-metro manufacturing jobs, September 2026

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October 21, 2026

Manufacturing payroll employment in the San Jose metro, thousands of jobs, NSA, 1990 to September 2026: from 251k to a peak of 260k in December 2000, now 131k.

Manufacturing as a percent of all San Jose-metro payroll jobs, NSA, 1990 to September 2026: from 30.7% to 11.1%, with a high of 30.7% in January 1990.

San Jose-metro manufacturers employed 131,100 people in September 2026, up 2.0% from a year earlier — 11.1% of all payroll jobs in the metro. The sector peaked at 260,500 jobs in December 2000 and has shed roughly 50% of that since.

The second chart is the share: it went from 30.7% in January 1990 to 11.1% now.

Numerator and denominator of the share come from the same BLS release for the same metro, so it stays consistent when the levels are revised; it is computed at read time, never stored.

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, State & Area Employment, manufacturing and total nonfarm payrolls, San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara MSA, not seasonally adjusted, via FRED. The share is derived at read time. Auto-generated each build.