SpaceX stock has cooled. Hiring for jobs in the space economy hasn't

Clearly, there's money to be made in space. SpaceX's historic initial public offering minted a $2 trillion company. And even as shares in Elon Musk's company come down from their IPO high, there remains an underlying boom in the space economy that is creating a new job market for Americans.

The space economy is growing domestically and around the globe, at an annual rate of 9%, according to the World Economic Forum. In the U.S., gross output in the space economy increased by nearly $51.5 billion from 2012 to 2023. The sector's total value reached an all-time high of $613 billion in Q2 2025, according to the Space Foundation.

As the space economy grows, it is spurring national job creation. In the private sector alone, over 373,000 employees work space-sector jobs, according to the most recent estimates from the Labor Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis. That remains a small fraction of the total U.S. private-sector workforce, but one that is growing rapidly. Space-sector employment increased by 27% in the decade through 2024, far outpacing total private-sector employment growth at 14%, and with its rate of growth accelerating in the more recent years. From 2019 to 2024 alone

Fuente original: CNBC Top News (https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/27/spacex-jobs-stem-careers-labor-economy.html)