New data on the manufacturing sector in Arizona shows rapid growth in recent years for the industry.
A report from the Common Sense Institute, a Phoenix-based conservative think tank, determined that Arizona topped all other states in March for adding 2,000 manufacturing jobs and $77.6 billion in “direct sales and output” from the sector in 2022, which the group said in a roughly 40% uptick since 2017.
In addition, CSI said that manufacturing results in 16% of the state’s workforce, which is over 600 thousand people. On the tax revenue side, the report found that $5.8 billion came from the sector in 2022.
A notable finding from the research is that there’s been a 30% increase in employment for manufacturing in Arizona. There are still fewer employed in the sector than there were in 2000, but it is close to those numbers at the time. Manufacturing took major dips in 2001 and again during the Great Recession in 2008.
