ECONOMIC AND REGIONAL SIGNIFICANCE

As one of Australia's single most important pieces of infrastructure, Sydney Airport is a major employer and economic driver. It makes a direct contribution of $8 billion in NSW Gross State Product. With flow-on impacts taken into account, the airport's economic contribution increases to $16.5 billion.

This is equivalent to 6% of the NSW economy and 2% of the Australian economy.

Around $7.4 billion is also contributed directly to household incomes every year – that's more than $142 million being injected into family budgets each and every week.

This substantial economic contribution translates into well paid jobs for Sydneysiders. Sydney Airport provides or generates more than 75,000 jobs and about 131,000 jobs indirectly, making a total of around 206,000 jobs. Tens of thousands of these workers live in areas close to the airport.

Economic consultants URS estimate that an additional 100,000 jobs will be generated by Sydney Airport over the next ten years as passenger numbers and aircraft movements grow. Many of these jobs and economic benefits will be generated locally in the areas around the airport, particularly in the local government areas of Rockdale, Botany Bay and Marrickville.

To download further information, click on the links below.

Fact Sheet No. 3: Sydney Airport: A major employer and economic driver (PDF 269KB)

URS Study – The Economic Impact of Growth at Sydney Airport (PDF 2.9MB)