California

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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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