The Largest Government In-plants - In-plant Impressions

By Bob Neubauer

We have finished collecting the data for our annual ranking of the largest in-plants. As we prepare the lists for our December issue, we've decided to reveal some of the data a little early. Here are the largest government in-plants, ranked by both sales and employees.

The Government Publishing Office and the state of California top both lists, but the state of Louisiana has supplanted the state of Washington for the No. 3 spot in our annual sales ranking. Louisiana's 2024 revenues of $36,424,940 represent a 21% jump over its 2023 sales of $30,089,000.

The two municipal in-plants on the list – the California cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles – have almost the same number of employees (18.5 versus 18), yet the City by the Bay generated $2,461,722 more revenue in 2024. Here's a look at the rankings:

Largest by Employees*

	Organization	Employees
1	U.S. Government Publishing Office	402
2	State of California	313.5
3	State of Washington	130
4	State of Oregon	83
5	State of Louisiana	80.5
6	State of Tennessee	76
7	Oregon Corrections Enterprises	70
8	State of Michigan	66.5
9	State of Missouri	54.5
10	State of Colorado	53
11	State of Wisconsin	50.5
12	New York Police Department	35
13	State of Kansas	30
14	Texas Department of Transportation	30
15	State of Montana	29
16	City and County of San Francisco	18.5
17	City of Los Angeles	18
18	State of Oklahoma	15
19	Montgomery County Board of County Commissioners	12.5
20	State of New Hampshire	9
21	State of New Mexico	6

* To get these figures, we added half of the number of part-time employees to the full-time number provided.

Largest by Sales

	Organization	Budget ($)	Sales ($)
1	U.S. Government Publishing Office	121,300,000	121,400,000
2	State of California	87,773,000	88,455,000
3	State of Louisiana	NA	36,424,940
4	State of Washington	34,500,000	NA
5	State of Michigan	21,469,627	21,469,627
6	State of Tennessee	15,484,389	15,651,553
7	State of Wisconsin	9,800,000	9,800,000
8	State of Montana	7,666,748	7,399,831
9	City and County of San Francisco	6,961,722	6,961,722
10	Oregon Corrections Enterprises	6,257,000	6,257,000
11	State of Kansas	6,100,000	5,800,000
12	Montgomery County Board of County Commissioners	5,000,000	5,102,000
13	City of Los Angeles	3,000,000	4,500,000
14	Texas Department of Transportation	2,800,000	2,750,000
15	State of New Mexico	2,732,200	2,436,891
16	State of Oklahoma	1,834,659	2,068,867
17	State of New Hampshire	1,518,980	1,624,876

The full list of the largest in-plants will be published in our November/December 2023 issue and will also be available online soon.

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Bob has served as editor of In-plant Impressions since October of 1994. Prior to that he served for three years as managing editor of Printing Impressions, a commercial printing publication. Mr. Neubauer is very active in the U.S. in-plant industry. He attends all the major in-plant conferences and has visited more than 180 in-plant operations around the world. He has given presentations to numerous in-plant groups in the U.S., Canada and Australia, including the Association of College and University Printers and the In-plant Printing and Mailing Association. He also coordinates the annual In-Print contest, co-sponsored by IPMA and In-plant Impressions.