Arizona

  • Jobs
    • The motion picture and television industry supported 8,327 direct jobs and 1,914 production-related jobs.
    • The software industry supported 49,092 direct jobs and 99,625 jobs in total.
    • Local television supported 33,040 jobs.
    • Local radio supported 19,920 jobs.
    • The app economy supported 106,940 jobs in the computing workforce.
  • Wages
    • $360.23 million in wages generated from the motion picture and television industry
    • $98.34 million earned by new media and internet creators.
    • In the local app economy, the average computing salary is $86,981.
  • State Economic Impact
    • Local software industry contributed $6.686 billion to U.S. GDP
    • Local television contributed $15.54 billion to U.S. GDP.
    • Local radio contributed $9.3 billion to U.S. GDP.
  • Copyright Registrations [2011-2017]
    • Total Registrations: 52,692
      • Visual Arts: 5,091
      • Performing Arts: 8,043
      • Sound Recordings: 10,294
      • Literary Works: 29,264
  • Creative Community By The Numbers
    • 75 video gaming companies
    • 4,375 music publishers and 15,943 songwriters
    • 186 local commercial radio stations
    • 26 local commercial television stations
    • 73 newspaper publications
    • 3,000 graphic designers
    • 880 photographers
  • Creative Spotlight
    • Notable creators who hail from the state of Arizona:
      • Emma Stone, actor
      • Chester Bennington, singer
      • Alice Cooper, singer
      • Dierks Bentley, singer
      • Stevie Nicks, singer/songwriter
      • Joe Jonas, singer
      • Lynda Carter, actor
      • Jordin Sparks, singer
      • Barbara Eden, actor
      • Jimmy Eat World, band
  • The top 5 daily Arizona newspapers by circulation are The Arizona Republic, Arizona Daily Star, East Valley Tribune, Yuma Sun, and The Daily Courier.
  • Parts of Alfred Hitchcock’s film, Pyscho, were filmed in Arizona
  • The Phoenix Art Museum is the largest art museum in the southwestern United States.
  • The Center for Creative Photography is located in Tuscon, Arizona and houses archives of the works of some of the most famous American photographers such as Ansel Adams, Wynn Bullock, Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Frederick Sommer. There are over five million archival objects in the Center’s collections which include negatives, work prints, and other memorabilia. There are also currently more than 90,000 works by over 2,200 photographers.
  • Harkins Theatres, the movie theatre chain, is headquartered in Scottsdale.

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