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Employment
Arizona is home to plastics manufacturers and establishments engaged in plastics processing, marketing, support and captive activities that directly employ 8,270 people. It is also home to a number of plastics dependent industries that use plastics to make products or provide services. Plastics and dependent industries combined employ 725 thousand people in Arizona.
Plastics Industry Employment
Plastics Dependent Industries and Total Employment
Total Plastics Industry and Dependent Industries: 724,870 employees.
Payroll
The plastics industry’s direct payroll in Arizona, including captive plastic products, is $395 million. Plastics dependent industries add another $31.4 billion to the state’s payroll.
Although some of the dependent payroll would exist without plastics, there would be less of it, because cost effective replacements for plastics are not available in many applications.
Taxes
Together, plastics companies and the industries that depend on plastics contribute $6.7 billion in state and federal personal income taxes, and $3.4 billion in payroll (FICA) taxes.
Shipments
Plastics industry shipments in Arizona totaled nearly $2.9 billion in 2016.
State Shipments
National Shipments
