Snohomish County Economic Development

The Boeing Company’s drive to maintain industry dominance continues to make aerospace our number one business sector. Today, more than 170 aerospace companies and supplier firms are located in Snohomish County. The new composite and advanced manufacturing processes being created by Boeing and related businesses are forecast to spur new job and industry growth during the next several decades.

Aerospace Convergence Zone, Paine Field, Everett

Our legacy aerospace industry has made value-added manufacturing a Snohomish county specialization. That means our workers are more productive, generating greater value for each hour worked, making our businesses better equipped to meet competitive challenges at home and abroad.

Aerospace Fast Facts

• Snohomish County is home to more than 170 aerospace companies representing roughly 22 percent of the state’s aerospace workers. Statewide, aerospace comprises about 650 companies.
• County and state aerospace companies frequently work with other international producers, including Airbus, Bombardier, Dassault, and Northrop Grumman.
• Boeing jobs in Snohomish County alone account for almost 33,000.
• An aerospace worker’s annual average income is $83,370.
• Washington is home to more than 7,000 aerospace engineers.
• Aerospace represents 8 percent of all Washington state jobs and totals $5.4 billion.
  Boeing is the largest employer in Washington with more than 75,000. The Puget Sound Economic Forecaster estimates aerospace’s direct and indirect employment totals at 209,300.* Report to the Govenor and Legislature, Governor's Council on Aerospace, October 7, 2008
• In 2008, Washington exported $33.8 billion worth of aircraft and related parts.
  Washington has the largest concentration of aerospace workers in the United States – more than 1/6 of all U.S. aerospace workers are employed in Washington State.