Workforce
2016 – Japanese Space Industry Employment
The Japanese space workforce grew by 5.1% from 2014 to 2015, adding 423 workers. This continued a trend of growth that began after a low point for the industry in…
2016 – European Space Agency Employment
At 26.5%, the percentage of female employees is slightly higher in the European Space Agency (ESA) than the European space workforce as a whole, but the proportion of young professionals…
2015 – European Space Industry Employment
The European space workforce included 38,435 workers in 2015, according to Eurospace, an association of the European space manufacturing industry. Eurospace conducts annual surveys of European firms involved in design,…
2017 – U.S. Army Space Workforce Update
The U.S. Army maintains a sizeable force of soldiers and civilians with training and experience in the space domain, with 4,948 space cadre billets in FY 2018. This was…
2016 – U.S. National Security Workforce
The U.S. national security space workforce is composed of federal employees working across all branches of the Department of Defense as well as the intelligence agencies. Together, there are more...…
2016 – NASA Workforce
Like the industry as a whole, NASA’s workforce has experienced steady decreases in size. From the start of FY 1993, the earliest date for which data is available in NASA’s…
2016 – U.S. Space Industry Employment
In 2015, the U.S. civilian space sector included 221,367 individuals. Employment is essentially unchanged from 2014, when 221,585 individuals worked in this area. Longer-term trends, however, show that the space…
2016 – U.S. Space Workforce
The U.S. space workforce includes individuals that work in the commercial, civil, and national security sectors. The U.S. space workforce has seen contraction across all of these sectors in recent…
2015 – Workforce
The global space industry relies on a highly qualified workforce. Understanding the trends in this workforce, including changes in size and demographics, provides insight into the overall health of the...…
2015 – Other Space Employment
The exhibit below provides a snapshot of workforce sizes in space agencies around the world, based on publicly available information from a variety of sources. Care should be... The exhibit…