Editing Gaithersburg, Maryland (section)

==Economy==
According to the city's 2020 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gaithersburgmd.gov/home/showpublisheddocument/8164/637407690572130000 |title=FY 2020 City of Gaithersburg, MD Comprehensive Annual Financial Report |format=PDF |access-date=July 18, 2021}}</ref> the top employers in the city are:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
|-
| 1
|[[AstraZeneca]] (''formerly [[MedImmune]]'')
|4,000
|-
|2
|[[National Institute of Standards and Technology]]
|2,798
|-
|3
|[[Leidos]] (''merged with [[Lockheed Martin]]'')
|1,515
|-
|4
|Asbury Methodist Village
|771
|-
|5
|[[Hughes Communications|Hughes Network Systems, LLC]]
|729
|-
|6
|[[Sodexo]] USA
|536
|-
|7
|[[Adventist HealthCare]]
|495
|-
|8
|[[GeneDx]]
|350
|-
|9
|[[Kaiser Permanente]]
|350
|-
|10
|[[Emergent BioSolutions]]
|347
|}

Gaithersburg also receives significant income from its conference organization platform including prominent conferences such as the [[Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems|CHI 84]] conference. 

[[Patton Electronics]] was founded in Gaithersburg during 1984. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbinsights.com/company/patton-electronics|title=Patton Electronics - Products, Competitors, Financials, Employees, Headquarters Locations|website=www.cbinsights.com}}</ref>