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  • Jobs - U.S. subsidiaries employ 5.6 million Americans. Insourcing Jobs by State Map

  • Payroll - U.S. subsidiaries of companies headquartered abroad support an annual payroll of $408.5 billion — with average compensation per worker of $73,023, which is 33 % higher than compensation at all U.S. companies.

  • Unions - 12.4 % of the U.S. employees of U.S. subsidiaries are covered by a union collective-bargaining agreement. This compares with the union-represented share of employment of all U.S. businesses of just 8.2 % 

  • Manufacturing - U.S. subsidiaries heavily invest in the American manufacturing sector; with 38 % of the jobs at U.S. subsidiaries in manufacturing industries.

  • Exports - U.S. subsidiaries manufacture in America to export goods around the world — accounting for more than 18 % of all U.S. exports, or $232.4 billion.

  • R&D - U.S. subsidiaries spend an annual $40.5 billion on U.S. research and development activities.
  • Industrial Footprint - U.S. subsidiaries' share of American employment represented 29.9 % of the U.S chemical industry, 27.2 % in the U.S. motor vehicle industry, and 25.3% of the American nonmetallic mineral products industry.

 

* All statistics are the latest publicly available government data from the Department of Commerce, compiled by Content First, LLC for the Organization for International Investment.

 

 

  • Bricks and Mortar - U.S. subsidiaries also spent $187.5 billion on plant construction and new equipment.

  • Reinvestment - U.S. subsidiaries of companies headquartered abroad reinvested $93.1 billion in their U.S. operations.

  • Taxes - According to IRS reports released in 2011, in 2008, U.S. subsidiaries paid $38 billion in U.S. corporate taxes - accounting for nearly 17 % of total corporate taxes in the U.S.

  •  Private Sector - 98 % of U.S. FDI is from private sector firms — only 2 % of total direct investment (assets) is owned by companies that are controlled by foreign governments.

  • OECD Countries - 94 % of total assets owned by foreign companies are from allied countries or  OECD countries.

  • Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the United States climbed to $194.5 billion in 2010, that's a 44 percent increase over the 2009 figure of $134.7 billion. (OFII analysis of Commerce Department numbers).
 
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