According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the highest employment was in the computer and electronic products industry (20,906 jobs), the food manufacturing industry (15,818 jobs), and printing and related activities (9,545 jobs). With total value of shipments of manufactured goods in 2011 at $41.8 billion, total annual payroll by Maryland manufacturers was $6.0 billion paid to 103,473 workers.
Maryland manufacturing was led by chemical manufactures ($4.5 billion), computer and electronic product manufactures ($4.2 billion), food, beverage and tobacco manufactures ($2.9 billion), and plastics and rubber manufactures ($0.9 billion).
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | |
| Computer & electronic products | $4,259,000,000 | $4,481,000,000 | $4,254,000,000 |
| Chemicals | $3,365,000,000 | $4,167,000,000 | $4,540,000,000 |
| Food, beverage & tobacco products | $2,919,000,000 | $3,047,000,000 | $2,913,000,000 |
| Fabricated metal products | $1,066,000,000 | $849,000,000 | $717,000,000 |
| Plastics & rubber products | $731,000,000 | $824,000,000 | $889,000,000 |
| Printing and related support activities | $668,000,000 | $509,000,000 | $506,000,000 |
| Machinery | $613,000,000 | $690,000,000 | $730,000,000 |
| 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |
| Computer & electronic products | $1,632,000,000 | $2,896,000,000 | $4,074,000,000 |
| Food products* | $2,192,000,000 | $2,715,000,000 | $2,790,000,000 |
| Chemicals | $2,779,000,000 | $3,191,000,000 | $2,393,000,000 |
| Fabricated metal products | $946,000,000 | $997,000,000 | $1,119,000,000 |
| Printing and related support activities | $1,057,000,000 | $917,000,000 | $902,000,000 |
| Machinery | $1,004,000,000 | $710,000,000 | $664,000,000 |
| Plastics & rubber products | $783,000,000 | $700,000,000 | $612,000,000 |
*(in 2007, the classification for food products was redesignated as Food and beverage and tobacco products)
| 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chemicals | $2,277,000,000 | $2,471,000,000 | $2,134,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Food products | $1,928,000,000 | $2,032,000,000 | $2,044,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Computer & electronic products | $1,410,000,000 | $1,525,000,000 | $1,616,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Printing and related support activities | $971,000,000 | $912,000,000 | $1,027,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fabricated metal products | $804,000,000 | $831,000,000 | $945,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Machinery | $771,000,000 | $983,000,000 | $701,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Plastics & rubber products | $735,000,000 | $772,000,000 | $782,000,000 |
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chemicals | $2,391,000,000 | $2,619,000,000 | $2,206,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Food products | $1,955,000,000 | $2,063,000,000 | $2,308,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Computer & electronic products | $1,195,000,000 | $1,342,000,000 | $1,389,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Machinery | $913,000,000 | $905,000,000 | $1,126,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Printing and related support activities | $1,061,000,000 | $1,060,000,000 | $1,050,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fabricated metal products | $908,000,000 | $898,000,000 | $820,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Plastics & rubber products | $682,000,000 | $647,000,000 | $787,000,000 |
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chemicals | $1,685,000,000 | $1,958,000,000 | $2,238,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Food products | $2,116,000,000 | $1,691,000,000 | $2,007,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Computer & electronic products | $1,957,000,000 | $2,072,000,000 | $1,640,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Printing and related support activities | $972,000,000 | $1,020,000,000 | $1,119,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Machinery | $901,000,000 | $998,000,000 | $1,075,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Fabricated metal products | $799,000,000 | $848,000,000 | $772,000,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary metals | $900,000,000 | $839,000,000 | $705,000,000 |
| 1996 | |||||||||||||||
| Food & kindred products | $2,728,700,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Chemicals & allied products | $2,360,800,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Printing & publishing | $2,175,600,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Primary metal industries | $1,465,700,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Industrial machinery & equipment | $1,429,700,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Instruments & related products | $1,266,600,000 | ||||||||||||||
| Electric, electronic equipment | $1,142,400,000 |
Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis
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