Boeing's Washington workforce nears pre-pandemic benchmark
The Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) grew its Washington-based workforce by nearly 10% last year, replenishing a manufacturing hub that had been slashed in 2020 amid an industrywide downturn.
Boeing had long been Washington's largest employer before the pandemic and the two 737 Max crashes that killed 346 people and slowed its largest production line to a crawl for nearly two years.
The company had nearly 72,000 employees in 2019 and fell to fewer than 57,000 in 2020. It was surpassed by Amazon.com, Inc. as the state’s top employer in 2021, as the e-commerce juggernaut has grown to more than 90,000 employees.
Boeing added more than 5,700 Washington employees in 2023, bringing its total to around 66,000. The vast majority of those employees work for its Seattle-based Boeing Commercial Airplanes division, the manufacturer told the Business Journal in an email statement.
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