Apple spent $60 billion "supporting" 450,000 US supplier jobs last year
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According to Apple, it spent a considerable $60 billion last year "supporting" over 9,000 American companies, an increase of more than 10% versus the year prior. This translated into a whopping 450,000 domestic jobs, the firm revealed.
Apple went on to state that the number of jobs it supports in the United States has tripled over the past eight years, going from 600,000 in 2011 to over 2 million today, all of which are spread across the 50 states. Of this number, 80,000 are employed by Apple directly while just over 1.5 million can be attributed to the App Store ecosystem.
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