We Work for Health of New Jersey seeks to educate our elected leaders, the news media and the communities they serve about the important contributions these companies and their employees make to the health and economic security of individuals, local communities, and to the state of New Jersey. The state’s biopharmaceutical companies stand together with our business and community partners to educate elected leaders on critical public policy issues that allow our sector, and the surrounding community.
The biopharmaceutical sector is the foundation of one of New Jersey’s most dynamic innovation and business ecosystems. Not only does the industry invest heavily in the research and development of new treatments and cures, it also generates high quality jobs, powers economic output and exports for the U.S. economy and sustains a very large-scale supply chain.
Supporting High Quality Jobs in New Jersey
The innovative biopharmaceutical sector directly supported 65,199 jobs in New Jersey in 2015. These jobs are often high-skill, high-wage professions.
The industry also supported another 311,308 jobs indirectly, for a total of about 376,507 jobs across the New Jersey economy. These additional jobs are with vendors and suppliers such as construction companies and I.T. companies, and jobs generated by the sector’s employees such as day care centers and restaurants.
New Jersey workers whose jobs were supported by the biopharmaceutical sector paid a total of $7.7 billion in personal taxes in 2015—$6.9 billion in federal taxes and $847 million in state taxes.
New Jersey's Economic Impact
In 2015, the biopharmaceutical sector supported $104.7 billion in economic output for the state of New Jersey—including $42.9 billion generated directly by the sector, and another $61.8 billion through its vendors and suppliers and through the economic activity of its workforce.
Direct Output per Direct Employee in 2015
vendor relationships
vendor spending
$6,185,637,066
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Elected Officials
Partners
Co-Chairs
Debbie Hart, President & CEO, BioNJ
Joseph Pannullo, Mayor, East Hanover Township; Chair, Mayors Committee on Life Sciences
Dean J. Paranicas, President and CEO, HealthCare Institute of New Jersey (HINJ)
Lisa Yourman, Executive Director, Action CF
Member Organizations
Abbott Point of Care, Inc.
AbbVie
Action CF
AFL-CIO, New Jersey
Alzheimer’s Association
Arthritis Foundation
Baxter Healthcare Corporation
Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals
BD
Biogen Idec
BioNJ
BioPharma Research Council
Bristol Myers Squibb
Celgene Corporation
Cerebral Palsy of North Jersey
Chamber of Commerce Southern New Jersey
Commerce and Industry Association of NJ
Crohn’s Colitis Effect
Daiichi Sankyo
EDSers United
Eisai, Inc.
Endo Pharmaceuticals Inc.
GlaxoSmithKline
HealthCare Institute of New Jersey
Ikaria, Inc.
ImClone Systems Incorporated
Innovation NJ
Johnson & Johnson
Mechanical & Allied Crafts Council of NJ
Merck & Co, Inc.
Middlesex County Chamber of Commerce
Millennium: The Takeda Oncology Company
Morris County Chamber of Commerce
NAMI Mercer
NAMI New Jersey
NAMI Somerset
New Jersey Association of Mental Health and Addiction Agencies (NJAMHAA)
New Jersey Building & Construction Trades Council
New Jersey Chamber of Commerce
New Jersey Conference of Mayors
New Jersey Laborers Union
New Jersey Life Science Vendors Alliance
New Jersey Mayors Committee on Life Sciences
New Jersey Pipe Trades
New Jersey State League of Municipalities
New Jersey State Society
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation
Novo Nordisk Inc.
Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. (OAPI)
Pfizer, Inc.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Praising Healthy Ministries
RASopathies Network
Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurship - Farleigh Dickinson University
Sanofi U.S.
Somerset County Business Partnership
Southern New Jersey Development Council
South Jersey Senior Marketing Group
Statewide Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey
Stevens Institute of Technology
Stockton Center on Successful Aging
Sunovion Pharmaceuticals Inc.
The Life Raft Group
