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and related drugs and medical devices, and nanotechnology, and in both cases the <br />logistics and information technology that make it work. <br />What makes the manufacturing cluster important is that the aging population <br />involved in traditional manufacturing will create job openings beyond its usual <br />multiplier, while advanced manufacturing depends on advancing technologies, many <br />of which spin out from the MSA and Irvine. <br />Healthcare (3/5/10). Healthcare includes both in- hospital and outpatient care, <br />doctor and dental offices, nursing facilities, family planning clinics, residential care, <br />and the many supportive areas of information, transportation, and pharmaceuticals <br />that support it, plus other social services that surround healthcare. It is difficult to <br />measure salaries here, because salaries in some of the supporting matrix —eg <br />doctors and Biotechnology Cluster providers (ranked 5) are very high, while salaries <br />for ordinary healthcare workers in semi - skilled and non - skilled areas remain very <br />low. Nonetheless salaries have been slowly but steadily increasing over the past five <br />years, as has the level of employment. <br />• Government and Administration (4 /NA /NA). This sector is large in size, and <br />various, but has been in more or less steady decline since 2007. Santa Ana <br />represents a small positive growth exception to this trend. <br />Business, Administrative and Professional Services (5/1/2). This cluster combines <br />ordinary office staffing and ancillary services that provide materials and human <br />resources at every level with highly paid specialized services in law, accounting, <br />programming, and other technical support occupations. It has been a steadily <br />growing cluster in both influence and salaries, with many highly skilled and less <br />skilled openings. <br />Finance (6/3/1). This cluster, sometimes referred to as FIRE (Finance, Insurance, <br />Real Estate), includes not only the professions listed, but also banks, credit unions, <br />mortgage- related services, and the surrounding office and materials services that <br />support them. Even more than in health and hospitality clusters, the high ranking <br />average salaries hide wide variations. The top earners in this cluster have <br />reasonably large staffs who service them at relative low salaries. <br />• Advanced Manufacturing (8/8/4). A sub - cluster under manufacturing for all <br />practical purposes, it is distinguished by its status as an emerging industry and by its <br />significantly higher salaries. <br />• Construction (9/4/9). Construction here is broadly construed, as both the <br />construction of new commercial, industrial, and housing structures and the <br />enhancement of standing ones, plus the architectural, design, utility, and other <br />supporting industries. It also includes the logistics and transportation, and <br />manufacturing and materiel clusters that support it. Construction took an especially <br />serious hit during the recession, but has been coming back since. <br />17 <br />19F -22 <br />