By the Numbers–Jobs Return to U.S.

Increasing foreign labor costs and better automation in the U.S. are bringing back jobs to the U.S. In fact, manufacturing has brought back more jobs than any other industry in the past five years. 

According to the Reshoring Initiative, about 140,000 jobs were lost to offshoring in 2003. In 2014, for the first time in two decades, the U.S. realized a net gain of 10,000 reshored jobs.

The vast majority of those jobs have returned from Asia, primarily China. A significant number also have returned from Mexico.

Source: Industry Week