Industry
Bathurst's economy is broad based with a strong manufacturing industry, large education sector (including agricultural) and government service sectors.
Private sector employers with large workforces in Bathurst (according to statistics published in 2009) include Devro, an international company that produces food casing products and Mars Petcare manufacturing plant are the single largest private employers of labour. Companies such as Telstra's call centre, Simplot Australia's (more recognisable as brands such as Edgells, BirdsEye, Chiko Roll, and I&J Seafood products) food processing and canning plant, Downer EDi's locomotive workshops, and Burkes Transport a local trucking and distribution company.
Government sector employers with large local workforces include Country Energy with their District Field Office and Corporate Office, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst Regional Council, the Land and Property Management Authority that provide mapping and survey data across NSW, the Greater Western Area Health Service � Regional Office, Bathurst Correctional Centre, Department of Education and Training � Regional Office, Police Service � Chifley Local Area Command, and NSW State Forests � Regional Office, and RailCorp's rail manufacturing workshops.
Agriculture
The Bathurst region's climate of cool winter weather lends itself to stone fruit production and cool variety grapes suitable for wine production. The flood plains along the river suit the summer production of corn to supply the Simplot processing plant located in Bathurst.
Bathurst is the location for the Bathurst Primary Industries Centre, a government facility that has been operating since 1895 and originally known as The Experimental Farm. Originally established to study most facets of agriculture in the early growth years of the western inland, work included dairy, pigs, vegetable, cereal plantings, and fruit trees. The site is still one of
