Maryland

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• Jobs
  • The motion picture and television industry supported 6,167 direct jobs and 2,797 production-related jobs.
  • The software industry supported 82,952 direct jobs and 151,594 in total.
  • Local television supported 29,720 thousand jobs.
  • Local radio supported 17,810 thousand jobs.
  • The app economy supported 134,080 jobs in the computing workforce.

• Wages
  • $537.01 million in wages generated from the motion picture and television industry
  • $101.29 million earned by new media and internet creators.
  • In the local app economy, the average computing salary is $99,619.

• State Economic Impact
  • Local software industry contributed $13.397 billion to U.S. GDP.
  • Local television contributed $23.62 billion to U.S. GDP.
  • Local radio contributed $8.82 billion to U.S. GDP.

• U.S. Copyright Registrations [2011-2017]
  • Total Registrations: 94,658
    • Visual Arts: 7,751
    • Performing Arts: 11,888
    • Sound Recordings: 16,570
    • Literary Works: 58,449

• Creative Community By the Numbers
  • 48 video gaming companies
  • 6,209 music publishers and 24,530 songwriters
  • 104 local commercial radio stations.
  • 10 local commercial television stations.
  • 58 newspaper publications
  • 3,190 graphic designers
  • 940 photographers

• Creative Spotlight
  
  • Notable creators who hail from the state of Maryland:
    • Dave Chappelle, comedian
    • Carl Bernstein, journalist
  • The top 5 Maryland daily newspapers by circulation are the Baltimore Sun, Baltimore Weekenders, The Kensington Beacon, Baltimore City Paper, and Prince George’s Sentinel.

• Major Companies Headquartered or Started Here
  • Urban One, media company, is headquartered in Silver Spring
  • Bethesda Softworks, video game publisher of The Elder Scrolls and The Fallout franchise, is headquartered in Rockville.

• Maryland enacted its state copyright law on April 21, 1783.

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