Jalisco
If your product has both a circuit board and a codebase, this is the metro where both can be built — in the same working day as most of North America.
The numbers
The case
Sixty years of contract electronics left behind the manufacturers, board houses and test labs, and a digital R&D layer has since grown on top of them. ITESO and the Universidad de Guadalajara keep both supplied, which is why senior engineers here are hired rather than relocated.
Class A industrial space runs $6.00 to $9.00 per square metre per month, above Querétaro and below Mexico City. Jalisco's 3.0% payroll tax is reimbursable against qualifying technology investment and headcount, so the effective labour cost is lower than the headline rate suggests.
Executive brief
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Sources compiled from: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (USMCA Data), Mexican Ministry of Economy (Secretaría de Economía — FDI Data), Mexican Tax Authority (SAT — Article 182 / CIVA), CANIETI Semiconductor Master Plan, and the Jalisco Tech Hub Act.
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