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Sky Harbor says 47,000 on‑campus jobs, airport funded by users not taxes
Summary
Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport reported 47,000 people work on the airport campus and officials said the airport is self‑supporting through parking, concessions and airline fees, not general tax revenues.
Chad Makowski, the City of Phoenix aviation director, said Sky Harbor Airport supports more than 47,000 employees on its campus and that the city directly employs about 950 airport staff.
"Our latest economic impact statement identified that we have over 47,000 employees working on our airport campus," Makowski said. "We're like the largest employer, or largest employer, I should say, in the entire state of Arizona." He added the city is directly responsible for roughly 950 employees who handle landlord tasks — runways, terminals, roadways and maintenance — while airlines, concessions,…
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