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• U.S. subsidiaries in Massachusetts play a vital role in supporting jobs. They now employ 167,500 workers in Massachusetts.
• Massachusetts has proven to be an attractive location for international employers, ranking 12th in the United States in the number of employees supported by U.S. subsidiaries.
• In fact, the relative portion of jobs in the state supplied by U.S. subsidiaries remains significant. They provide the livelihood for nearly 6% of Massachusetts's private-sector workforce.
• Massachusetts ranks 7th in the country in the share of its workforce supported by U.S. subsidiaries.

• U.S. subsidiaries support 31,700 manufacturing jobs in Massachusetts. 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 10% of manufacturing jobs in Massachusetts are supported by U.S. subsidiaries.

• 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.

Last year, Nokia, a U.S. subsidiary of a Finnish company, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced the opening the Nokia Research Center, a joint project aimed at developing state-of-the-art in communications technologies. Located five minutes from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the new research center in Cambridge will have approximately 20 researchers from MIT and 20 researchers from Nokia. Nokia, a global telecommunications company, will invest 23.8 million dollars into the new facility. Overall, the creation of the new research facility is expected to create 100 new jobs in the region.