Ohio: Bioscience is big business in the Buckeye State

+2,390 bioscience-related organizations

+3,100 facilities

14% growth in the past 5 years

384 locations added

+68,500 workers employed

$4.83 billion payroll in 2014

15% ($631 million) increase since 2009

$70,481- Bioscience sector average wage

Represented in 81 of 88 Ohio counties:

Northeast (Cleveland/Akron/Youngstown area) – 1,234 locations; 40% statewide total

Central (Columbus area) – 624 (20%)

Southwest (Cincinnati area) – 580 (19%)

$701.6 million grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in

2015; U.S. average is $470.7 million per state

5 of the Top 100 NIH funding recipients