The manufacturing sector pumps more than half a trillion dollars into local economies every year.
The payrolls for manufacturers in 873 metropolitan and micropolitan areas totaled $512 billion in 2009, according to a new analysis by On Numbers.
The Los Angeles area led the way. Its 18,637 manufacturing companies paid a total of $29.35 billion to their 575,669 employees.
Payrolls for local manufacturers topped $10 billion in five other markets:
• Chicago, $21.06 billion
• New York City, $18.73 billion
• Dallas-Fort Worth, $12.13 billion
• Houston, $12.03 billion
• Philadelphia, $10.89 billion
The following database contains breakdowns for manufacturers in all 873 areas, based on statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau's 2009 County Business Patterns Report, which was released this summer.
Included are counts of each area's manufacturing establishments, employees and annual payrolls. Use the tab to reduce the list to a single state, or simply push the Search button to see everything at once. Re-sort the list by clicking any column header. (Reverse the arrow with a second click.)
Thirteen metros had manufacturing payrolls between $5 billion and $10 billion in 2009, and another 86 areas finished between $1 billion and $5 billion.
