Official employee figure statistics show that the Hessian chemical industry is the second largest industry sector with 58,014 employees. (Electronics industry with 64,995 employees and automobile industry which employs 59,428 workers.)

Thus, the chemical industry employs 15.1 percent of all employees in the Hessian processing industry and 13.9 percent of all chemical industry employees in Germany. North Rhine-Westfalia is the only German state where the chemical industry is of higher significance in the employment market.