The City of Everett Washington, population 97,500, is the county seat of Snohomish County, Washington. Located about 25 miles north of Seattle, Everett is a Pacific-Rim city situated on Port Gardner Bay which is on the eastern shore of Puget Sound. Once a mill town built on wood-based industries, today's labor force of more than 80,000 is predominately employed in technology, aerospace and service-based industries.
Major employers include the Boeing Company located next to Painefield (Washington State’s largest airport north of Seattle), Naval Station Everett (Home port of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln), Providence General Medical Center, Verizon (telecommunications), Kimberly-Clark Corp. (paper products), Intermec (bar code manufacturing) and Fluke Corporation (electronic testing equipment).