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.

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