New Jersey

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Jobs
- The motion picture and television industry supported 11,613 direct jobs and 5,401 production related jobs.
- The software industry supported 93,066 direct jobs and 251,602 jobs in total.
- Local television supported 42,970 jobs.
- Local radio supported 24,450 jobs.
- The app economy supported 161,590 jobs in the computing workforce.

Wages
- $735.39 million in wages generated from the motion picture and television industry
- $157.75 million earned by new media and internet creators
- In the local app economy, the average computing salary is $102,432.

State Economic Impact
- Local software industry contributed $19.717 billion to U.S. GDP
- Local television contributed $21.79 billion to U.S. GDP.
- Local radio contributed $12.35 billion to U.S. GDP.

U.S. Copyright Registrations [2011-2017]
- Total Registrations: 182,336
  - Visual Arts Total: 28,081
  - Performing Arts Total: 18,982
  - Sound Recording Total: 19,652
  - Literary Works:155,621

Creative Community By the Numbers
- 42 video gaming companies
- 81 commercial radio stations
- 12 commercial television stations
- 12,715 music publishers and 34,944 songwriters
- 151 newspaper publications
- 30+ book and education publishers
- 5,470 graphic designers
- 1,500 photographers

Creative Spotlight
- Notable creators who hail from the state of New Jersey:
  - Whitney Houston, singer
  - Bruce Springsteen, musician
  - Frank Sinatra, singer
  - Meryl Streep, actor
  - John Travolta, actor
  - Kal Penn, actor/writer/producer
  - Shaquille O’Neal, former NBA player

The top 5 New Jersey daily newspapers by circulation are The Star-Ledge, The Record, Asbury Park Press, The Press of Atlantic City, and the Courier-Post.
Majesco Entertainment, a video game publisher, is headquartered in Edison
MSNBC’s first newsroom was located in Secaucus, New Jersey.
Johnson & Johnson is headquartered in New Brunswick
Parts of American Gangster, The Manchurian Candidate, Goodfellas, The Wolf of Wall Street, Hunger Games: Catching Fire were filmed in New Jersey.
The first drive-in movie theater was located in New Jersey.
Thomas Edison, one of the inventors of the motion picture projector, invented the device in New Jersey.
On May 27, 1783, New Jersey enacted its first state copyright law.