Labor Force

Allegany County, Maryland is part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area', which encompasses Allegany County and Mineral County, WV. In Allegany County you will find an available workforce with 1,748 diverse businesses that employ 29,146 workers and a labor force of 35,537 people. Available labor comes from a wide variety of skilled workers from the management and professional sector, service industries, manufacturing and production, and sales.

In addition, the six county region which includes Garrett County, Maryland, and Mineral and Hampshire Counties in West Virginia, and Bedford and Somerset Counties in Pennsylvania has a labor force of 138,224 people (July 2007).

County	July 2008 Labor Force	July 2009 Labor Force
Allegany County, MD	35,636	36,537
Bedford County, PA	24,358	24,433
Garrett County, MD	16,930	16,603
Hampshire County, WV	9,410	9,170
Mineral County, WV	13,490	13,370
Somerset County, PA	39,358	38,975
TOTAL	139,182	138,088

Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing, and Regulation
http://www.dllr.state.md.us/