Semiconductor industry direct employment

RecordSTO-01M2HY9T61-YW5ZX1846F-78A896

345 thousand
estimate

United States · 2024

Semiconductor industry direct employment in the United States was 345 thousand in 2024 (SIA).

Original source

Semiconductor industry direct employment: every country and year, and how it is measured

Publisher
SIA
Authority tier
T2 Official
Locator
Section 'Workforce'
Retrieved
14 Sep 2026
Status
Verified

What the source says

Today, the chip industry directly employs around 345,000 people across chip design, electronic design automation (EDA), semiconductor fabrication, and equipment production.

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APA

Semiconductor Industry Association. (2025). 2025 State of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry. Retrieved September 14, 2026, from https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SIA-State-of-the-Industry-Report-2025.pdf. Via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T61YW5ZX1846F78A896

Other formats: MLA, Chicago, BibTeX
MLA
Semiconductor Industry Association. "2025 State of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry." 2025, https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SIA-State-of-the-Industry-Report-2025.pdf. Accessed 14 Sept. 2026 via StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T61YW5ZX1846F78A896.
Chicago
Semiconductor Industry Association. "2025 State of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry." 2025. https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SIA-State-of-the-Industry-Report-2025.pdf. Accessed September 14, 2026. Cited from StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T61YW5ZX1846F78A896.
BibTeX
@misc{sia2025semiconductor78a896, author = {{Semiconductor Industry Association}}, title = {2025 State of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry}, year = {2025}, howpublished = {StatOrigin, https://statorigin.org}, url = {https://statorigin.org/stat/stat_01M2HY9T61YW5ZX1846F78A896}, note = {Original source: https://www.semiconductors.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/SIA-State-of-the-Industry-Report-2025.pdf. Accessed September 14, 2026.} }

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Chain of custody
Record: STO-01M2HY9T61-YW5ZX1846F-78A896 T2 Official

Primary source

Publisher
Semiconductor Industry Association · homepage ↗
Authority tier
Tier 2 · National and industry official
Report
2025 State of the U.S. Semiconductor Industry
Type
Report
Published
1 July 2025
Locator
Section 'Workforce'
Retrieved
14 September 2026
Link status
Reachable (HTTP 200)
Report licence
Proprietary report; figure taken from its public summary

Verification

Status
Verified
Review protocol
Editorial review
Checked on
15 September 2026
Last revision
15 September 2026
Permanent URL
/stat/stat_01M2HY9T61YW5ZX1846F78A896