Employment

According to a March 2, 2007 article in the Daily Record by J. Thomas Sadowski ..."For Maryland, the 2005 BRAC translates into the largest employment opportunity to hit the state since World War II. Thousands of federal and defense contractor jobs will be shifted here in response to military base closures in Northern New Jersey and Northern Virginia.

The two bases in Maryland gaining the most BRAC-related jobs are Fort Meade in Anne Arundel County (approximately 5,800 new jobs on base) and Aberdeen Proving Ground in Harford County (a net of over 9,000 jobs on base). Conservative estimates total more than 45,000 direct, indirect and induced jobs being created in Maryland over the next six-plus years. Federal contractors relocating to the area are expected to create many of those jobs, primarily in the fields of communications, electronics, engineering and information technology."

A study presented December 2006 by RESI of Towson University shows us the breakdown.

To determine which Counties the employees of the BRAC related jobs would likely reside in, RESI relied on commuting patterns data from the 2000 census as well as input from the Maryland Department of Planning and the Baltimore Metropolitan Council. RESI made several assumptions regarding household income and home purchases. Our general findings are summarized as follows:

• over 45,000 jobs of which 15,000 are direct jobs, 22,000 indirect jobs and the balance are induced jobs;
• the average wages of all these new jobs are over $70,000;
• the average household income of households likely to move to Maryland due to BRAC exceeds $110,000;
• the annual income and property tax revenues (local and state) approach half billion dollars derived from the nearly 28,000 new households estimated to locate to Maryland;
• Anne Arundel County will see its household population increase by nearly 4,500;
• Harford County will see its household population increase by over 6,500; and
• of the 28,000 household, over 24,000 are predicted to be homeowners.