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Biotech Layoff Tracker 2024. Last year, we tallied 187 total layoffs among biotech companies, a 57% jump compared to 119 in 2022. Will cut the jobs of 93 people — nearly half of them scientists — in the latest round of layoffs to hit the bay area biotech giant and the biotech.

Last year, we tallied 187 total layoffs among biotech companies, a 57% jump compared to 119 in 2022. About 67% of life science employees laid off during the first half of 2024 were at companies with more than $1 billion in annual sales, according to bio.