For Star subscribers: Tucson-area business and government leaders are focused on growing manufacturing jobs, citing relatively high pay and economic impact.
David Wichner Every day across the Tucson area, local factory workers are busy making everything from missiles to medical instruments, from archery equipment to dinnerware.
But in 2019, manufacturing generated 13.8% of the area’s gross domestic product, largely because of average annual wages of $92,786 per worker, which was $22,866 above the national average, according the Making Action Possible Dashboard, a project of the Economic and Business Research Center at the University of Arizona.
But aerospace and defense manufacturing accounts for about half of Tucson’s manufacturing jobs, led by the region’s biggest employer, Raytheon Missiles & Defense with about 13,000 workers.In 2007, Sun Corridor Inc., the Tucson region’s main economic development group, targeted four high-wage industry sectors for its business attraction and expansion efforts: aerospace and defense; renewable energy and mining; transportation and logistics; and bioscience and health care.
Snell said Tucson has carved out a growing niche in medical diagnostic manufacturing, which is led by Roche Tissue Diagnostics, which employs about 1,800 people making instruments and test kits at its main campus in Oro Valley and a recently expanded site in Marana. Shifting pipelineIn the mining space, heavy equipment maker Caterpillar built a new regional mining technology center in downtown Tucson that opened in 2019 and employs some 600 people, and it recently unveiled an all-electric haul truck and is developing a model sustainable mining site at its proving ground in Green Valley.
Battery boomA recent example is American Battery Factory, a startup that, if successful, could employ 1,000 people making advanced lithium iron phosphate batteries on a county site south of the airport.
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