In FY22, UAB directly employed or supported 46,804 jobs8 throughout the state, making UAB Alabama’s largest employer. Besides the jobs directly supported by UAB, thousands of additional jobs are indirectly supported because of spending by UAB, its employees, visitors, and patients. Indirect and induced employment is generated when an organization spends money in the economy, when those directly employed by an organization spend their earnings, and when visitors to the organization spend in the economy. 

UAB supports thousands of jobs statewide in virtually every sector of the Alabama economy, including construction, business and professional services, restaurants and hotels, information technology, security, and temporary employment companies. 

In FY22, UAB supported 107,687 jobs in Alabama. These jobs (both full-time and part-time) include not only those directly employed or supported by UAB (46,804 jobs) but also indirect and induced jobs (60,883 jobs) that are supported because of UAB, employee, student, and visitor spending.