19F - WIA STRATEGIC PLAN 2013-2017

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ranks first in employment, tenth in multiplier effect and tenth in salary. That would suggest that it creates lots of openings for work, but work along the bottom rung of the career ladder, often with no way to climb that ladder or even to move laterally into feeder industries. It suggests that the category is important for its sheer size, but not desirable as a place to prosper over the long term without serious career pathway support. The top ten clusters by economic impact employ over two - thirds of all residents of Orange County in 2011. The top 14 employ 75 %. Looked at in terms of overall growth in employment measured against 2007, almost every cluster has exhibited growth. Measured against 2009 and 2010, all have exhibited more modest gains. CSUF suggests that the increase in employment will continue over the next five years, but after adjusting for inflation and population growth, reaching 2007 levels in both employment and salaries may be problematic. Within the clusters and sub - clusters below, several outliers suggest opportunity for Orange County residents, and may be adjusted to fit Santa Ana's profile. Logistics, information technology, and biotechnology/ nanotechnology represent emerging business segments with low current employment but significant employment potential in future, as well as generating multipliers through the sub - clusters and industries that will grow to support them. Manufacturing, construction, health care, social services, and hospitality represent clusters of lower importance to Orange County but with greater congruence with Santa Ana's labor base. The key clusters, based on NAICS codes and incorporated in EDA, BLS, and CEDS data for 2011 and the four years preceding it, are: • Tourism and hospitality (1/10/10). This sector includes subsectors of restaurants and hotels and all of the industries in food production and service, logistics and transportation that support them. While this cluster employs the most workers in Orange County, and especially from Santa Ana, it is the lowest paying of the clusters on average and has a relatively small multiplier effect. Nonetheless, both its size and salaries have steadily increased over the five years ending in 2011, the only cluster, except for relatively smaller ones, for which that is true. Manufacturing (2/8/7). Manufacturing includes traditional and advanced versions, and includes every form of fabrication and machining, and the materials production, transportation and logistics, warehousing, and other industries supporting it. While manufacturing has shown small growth in salary over the years, it remains important because of its overall size and the fact that multipliers in this industry are generally high. In Santa Ana, most manufacturing is "traditional" and small, in that it represents hands -on labor to make things in limited runs. But some is both more intricate in fabrication machining, assembly, and materials, and in the employment of flexible techniques. The exception to slow growth is a sub - cluster called Advanced Manufacturing, whose salaries rank fourth. This sub - cluster is largely associated with bio- technology 16 19F -21