Table 2

Manufacturing jobs by state, 2013 (ranked by manufacturing jobs as a share of total state employment)

Rank State Total manufacturing jobs State employment Manufacturing jobs as share of state employment
1 Indiana 491,900 2,934,100 16.8%
2 Wisconsin 458,400 2,820,400 16.3%
3 Iowa 214,500 1,530,200 14.0%
4 Michigan 555,300 4,106,000 13.5%
5 Alabama* 249,100 1,903,800 13.1%
6 Arkansas 152,400 1,177,600 12.9%
7 Ohio 662,100 5,253,300 12.6%
8 Kentucky 228,600 1,837,100 12.4%
9 Mississippi 136,700 1,111,700 12.3%
10 Kansas 162,900 1,373,500 11.9%
11 South Carolina 224,800 1,897,300 11.8%
12 Tennessee 319,000 2,751,000 11.6%
13 Minnesota 308,100 2,779,600 11.1%
14 North Carolina 442,500 4,058,000 10.9%
15 Oregon 174,900 1,674,300 10.4%
16 Vermont 31,700 306,000 10.3%
17 New Hampshire 65,900 640,400 10.3%
18 Illinois 579,600 5,796,900 10.0%
19 South Dakota 41,600 417,200 10.0%
20 Connecticut 163,800 1,655,700 9.9%
21 Nebraska 96,100 978,900 9.8%
22 Pennsylvania 563,500 5,743,500 9.8%
23 Washington 286,300 2,988,000 9.6%
24 Idaho 59,700 638,500 9.4%
25 Missouri 252,200 2,729,100 9.2%
26 Utah 119,100 1,289,900 9.2%
27 Georgia 357,400 4,034,500 8.9%
28 Rhode Island 40,100 471,200 8.5%
29 Maine 50,500 601,700 8.4%
30 Oklahoma* 136,500 1,633,400 8.4%
31 California 1,251,400 15,153,500 8.3%
32 Texas 871,700 11,191,900 7.8%
33 Massachusetts 250,400 3,358,100 7.5%
34 Louisiana 144,200 1,951,900 7.4%
35 West Virginia 48,500 763,500 6.4%
36 New Jersey 243,300 3,935,300 6.2%
37 Arizona 155,100 2,515,900 6.2%
38 Virginia 230,600 3,765,800 6.1%
39 Delaware 25,400 427,800 5.9%
40 North Dakota 25,500 444,300 5.7%
41 Colorado 132,800 2,381,200 5.6%
42 New York 455,100 8,915,600 5.1%
43 Alaska 14,900 336,700 4.4%
44 Florida 322,000 7,580,100 4.2%
45 Maryland 106,300 2,596,800 4.1%
46 Montana 18,300 448,800 4.1%
47 New Mexico 29,100 811,700 3.6%
48 Nevada 40,500 1,175,000 3.4%
49 Wyoming 9,500 290,700 3.3%
50 Hawaii 13,500 617,800 2.2%
51 District of Columbia* 1,000 745,800 0.1%
Total** 12,013,800 136,540,700 8.8%

*Nonseasonally adjusted data are used for Alabama, the District of Columbia, and Oklahoma

**The total represents the sum of states and the District of Columbia and differs slightly from total national employment as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014a)

Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (2014c) and author's analysis

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