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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.
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