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- Jobs
- The motion picture and television industry supported 198,203 direct jobs and 142,454 production-related jobs.
- The software industry supported 494,856 direct jobs and 1,160,457 jobs in total.
- Local television supported 193,260 jobs.
- Local radio supported 114,730 jobs.
- The app economy supported 708,000 jobs in the computing workforce.
- Wages
- $21.02 billion in wages generated from the motion picture and television industry.
- $1.47 billion earned by new media and internet creators.
- In the local app economy, the average computing salary is $108,125.
- State Economic Impact
- Local software industry contributed $124.688 billion to U.S. GDP.
- Local television contributed $99.17 billion to U.S. GDP.
- Local radio contributed $58.55 billion to U.S. GDP.
- California’s music industry generated $38 billion to U.S. GDP.
- Copyright Registrations [2011-2017]
- Total Registrations: 823,102
- Visual Arts: 210,660
- Performing Arts: 328,496
- Sound Recordings: 104,414
- Literary Works: 179, 532
- Creative Community By The Numbers
- 889 video gaming companies
- 95,353 music publishers and 191,917 songwriters
- 671 local commercial radio stations
- 91 local commercial television stations
- 453 newspaper publications
- 60+ book and education publishers
- 30,180 graphic designers
- 5,810 photographers
- Creative Spotlight
- Notable creators who hail from the state of California:
- George Takei, actor
- Leonardo DiCaprio, actor
- Tom Hanks, actor
- Clint Eastwood, actor/director
- Angelina Jolie, actor
- Marilyn Monroe, actor
- Kendrick Lamar, rapper
- Snoop Dogg, rapper
- Greta Gerwig, director
- Kathryn Bigelow, director
- Justin Lin, director
- Nora Ephron, journalist, writer, filmmaker
- Maxine Hong Kingston, author
- Amy Tan, author
- Steve Jobs, software developer
- Ansel Adams, photographer
- William Hanna, animator/director/cartoon artist
- Rube Goldberg, cartoonist, sculptor, author
- Bill Amend, cartoonist/creator of FoxTrot
- Weird Al Yankovich, singer-songwriter, producer, author
- Wesley Chan, Ted Fu, Philip Wang, filmmakers/YouTubers
- These companies were headquartered or started here
- Adobe Systems, software company
- Apple Inc., software and technology company
- Blizzard Entertainment, video game developer/publisher
- Electronic Arts, video game company
- Hewlett-Packard, software and technology company
- Lionsgate, entertainment company
- Live Nation, live entertainment company
- Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, film and T.V. company
- Netflix, film and T.V. streaming company
- Paramount Pictures, film studio
- Sony Pictures Entertainment, film studio
- The top 5 California daily newspapers by circulation are the Los Angeles Times, The San-Diego Union-Tribune, Orange County Register, and the San Francisco Chronicle.
- California is home to KWG, KNX, and KCBS which are the sixth, seventh, and eighth oldest radio stations respectively in the United States.
- UCLA’s Film & Television Archive is the second largest moving image archive in the United States and the world’s largest university-based media archive.
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