An economic impact analysis of the state’s life sciences industry by the Research Council was released today at the Washington Biotechnology and Biomedical Association’s Governor’s Life Sciences Summit and Annual Meeting. We estimate that the various segments of the life sciences industry directly employed over 33,500 people in the state in 2010. Those life science jobs in turn supported 57,000 additional jobs throughout the state’s economy, so that the total employment impact was nearly 91,000.

A copy of the study is available here. A Puget Sound Business Journal article on the study is available here.