The latest Arizona bioscience employment data featured in the new Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap highlights the state’s strengths and areas to emphasize to continue guiding industry growth.
In line with the state’s population, most bioscience jobs are in Greater Phoenix, a top-employing area across multiple bioscience subsectors. Tucson and Flagstaff have nationally competitive employment concentrations of medical devices and equipment jobs, while Yuma and Sierra Vista-Douglas have competitive employment concentrations of agricultural feedstock and industrial biosciences jobs for regions their size.
Complementing the hundreds of local startup ventures and small companies are several national and global bioscience companies with R&D, manufacturing, sales, and administrative operations in Arizona.
Here’s an at-a-glance look at the numbers, as first presented during the 2025 Arizona’s Bioscience Roadmap Progress Report:
More than 144,000: Number of jobs in Arizona’s bioscience industry, including hospitals.
6: Number of bioscience subsectors, including hospitals; agricultural feedstock and industrial biosciences; bioscience-related distribution; medical devices and equipment; pharmaceuticals; and research, testing and medical laboratories.
About 15,500: Number of people employed by the five largest non-hospital bioscience companies, including W.L. Gore, Isagenix International, Sonora Quest Laboratories, Confluent Medical Technologies, and Dexcom.
More than 103,000: Number of hospital-specific jobs in the state.
2.6: Percent growth in research-related hospital jobs from 2019-2023, which now tops 13,000.
Approximately 13,000: Number of bioscience-related distribution jobs in Arizona, the largest employment group outside of hospitals. This includes medical supplies, drug wholesalers, and farm-supply wholesalers.