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Pharmaceutical & biotechnology
Colorado bioscience
companies
Region includes Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broom昀椀eld,
Denver, Douglas, Je昀昀erson, Larimer and Weld counties.
Nine-county
region
U.S.
Direct employment, 2022
7,960
551,840
No. of direct companies, 2022
570
26,780
One-year employment growth, 2021-2022
5.0%
4.4%
Five-year employment growth, 2017-2022
51.3%
18.6%
Ave. annual direct employment growth, 2017-2022
8.6%
3.5%
Colorado ranks No. 12
nationwide in terms
of direct employment
concentration in
bioscience. Companies
operating in the Boulder
Valley and Northern
Colorado include:
Direct employment concentration
0.4%
0.4%
Company
% of companies with
