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San Francisco-metro manufacturing jobs, September 2026

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October 21, 2026

Manufacturing payroll employment in the San Francisco metro, thousands of jobs, NSA, 1990 to September 2026: from 170k to a peak of 184k in December 2000, now 128k.

Manufacturing as a percent of all San Francisco-metro payroll jobs, NSA, 1990 to September 2026: from 9.5% to 5.3%, with a high of 9.5% in August 1990.

San Francisco-metro manufacturers employed 128,100 people in September 2026, down 3.5% from a year earlier — 5.3% of all payroll jobs in the metro. The sector peaked at 184,400 jobs in December 2000 and has shed roughly 31% of that since.

The second chart is the share: it went from 9.5% in January 1990 to 5.3% 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 Francisco–Oakland–Fremont MSA, not seasonally adjusted, via FRED. The share is derived at read time. Auto-generated each build.