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• U.S. subsidiaries in Alabama play a vital role in supporting jobs. They now employ 63,200 Alabamians.
• In fact, the relative portion of jobs in the state supplied by U.S. subsidiaries remains significant. They provide the livelihood for nearly 4% of Alabama's private-sector workforce

• U.S. subsidiaries support 33,900 manufacturing jobs in Alabama. Manufacturing companies tend to have a strong “multiplier” effect on the economy—stimulating a substantial amount of activity and jobs in other sectors through their demand for inputs from other suppliers.
• More than 11% of manufacturing jobs in Alabama are supported by U.S. subsidiaries.
• U.S. subsidiaries’ employment in Alabama is heavily concentrated in manufacturing. Nearly 55% of these jobs are in manufacturing industries.

• U.S. subsidiaries consistently support millions of American jobs. They now employ 5.1 million Americans-or 4.4% of private sector employment.
• U.S. subsidiaries support an annual payroll of $335.9 billion.
• U.S. subsidiaries provide an average compensation per U.S. worker of $66,042; this is 32% higher than compensation at all U.S. companies.
• U.S. subsidiaries also spent $121 billion on plant construction and new equipment.
• U.S. subsidiaries' share of U.S. manufacturing employment represents almost 11% of American manufacturing jobs.

In May 2007, ThyssenKrupp Steel and Stainless USA, a U.S. subsidiary of German steelmaker Thyssenkrup AG, chose Alabama for a $3.7 billion steel plant near Mt. Vernon in the Calvert community, 25 miles north of Mobile. The Alabama plant will be Thyssenkrup's first steel making operation in the United States. This large-scale project is described as the first of its kind in the United States in decades, and as the largest economic project in the history of the state. The plant will be a 3,500-acre site employing as many as 2,700 workers with a capacity of producing 4.1 million metric tons of carbon steel end products. Thyssenkrupp estimates that this plant will generate at least 38,000 jobs indirectly in the region over the next two decades.