Foreign Direct Investment in NH

If you read yesterday's story on the foreign market in New Hampshire, you may find the statistics below of particular interest. Click here to read yesterday's story.

Foreign Direct Investment in NH

34,000+
The number of people in NH who are employed by foreign-owned firms.

130+
The number of companies in NH that are foreign-owned.

5
New Hampshire's rank nationally in 2005, the most recent year analyzed, for the percent of its private workforce employed by foreign-owned companies. In NH, that number is 6.1 percent.

2
New Hampshire's rank nationally in 2006 for the percent of its private non-bank workforce employed by foreign-owned companies

6
Percent of New England's private, non-bank workforce employed by foreign-owned companies in 2006, the highest of any region in the country.

33
Percent of foreign direct investment in manufacturing in the U.S.

59
Percent of foreign direct investment in services in the U.S.-mostly finance, wholesale trade and banks

$66,000
Average wage of employees at U.S. subsidiaries of foreign firms. That is 25 percent higher than workers at domestically- owned companies.

18%
Percent of manufacturing jobs in NH supported by U.S subsidiaries of foreign companies.

$335.9
The billions U.S payroll for American subsidiaries of foreign companies.

447,000
The number of new jobs created by U.S. subsidiaries of foreign firms between 2003 and 2007.

Sources: International Trade Resource Center; International Trade Association; U.S. Department of Commerce and
The Face of Foreign Investment