Boeing recently announced that it will be cutting about 6% of its job force, and more than half of the layoffs will be happening in Washington state.
4,500 of the jobs being cut will come out of the Commercial Airlines unit, which was already announced by Boeing earlier in July. The other 5,500 of the jobs that were announced to be cut last week will be made in the defense and corporate support services unit, most of these jobs located across the US.
Estimates for the number of Boeing jobs lost in Washington are adding up to be more than 5,000 jobs cut in the state. This comes out of a total of 13,000 employees that Boeing employs in Washington.
However, Boeing does see a return to profitability within 2009 as it expects to continue current production levels and deliver between 480 to 485 planes through the remainder of this year.
