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Agency Virginia Economic Development Partnership (310)
Measure Name Dollar Unit Cost of Direct Jobs Announced
Measure Last Modified
09-22-2014 04:27 p.m.
Measure Last Published
01-13-2015 04:04 p.m.
Status
Active
Data Source and Calculation
The Virginia Economic Development Partnership's (VEDP) costs associated with having companies locate and expand in Virginia divided by VEDP Assisted Direct Jobs Announced. VEDP costs include all business marketing costs and the portion of support costs, such as Administration and Information Technology applicable to the business marketing effort. The "VEDP Assisted" jobs are the jobs for which VEDP has an impact on the decision, which announced jobs data is tracked continuously by VEDP's Research Division.</p> <p>The preferred trend is to have the unit dollar cost go down.</p>
Enterprise Priorities and Strategies
Initiative Priority Strategy
Economy Business Climate and Economic Development Promote Virginia’s competitive business climate to maintain the designation as the best state for business.
Economy Diversification Attract businesses to the Commonwealth that operate in new and growing fields in the 21st century economy. Targeted areas include cyber security and biosciences.
Associated Service Areas
Service Area Code Service Area Name
53412 Economic Development Services
Targets and Baselines
Name Date Result Note
Baseline None None
Short Target 2025 None None
Long Target 2027 None None
Results
Year Result Note
2008 796
2009 731
2010 730
2011 570
2012 954 The dollar unit cost per job increased because the costs remained approximately the same and the job creation fell from 26,068 in FY11 to 13,829 in FY12.
2013 1,216 Cost per job rose again as FY13 job creation decreased to 10,290 while costs went down by a small percentage.
2014 849 Cost per job decreased as the number of VEDP Assisted Jobs rose to 15,029 while costs substantially remained steady.
2015 731 Cost per job decreased again this year due to the number of VEDP assisted jobs climbed to 18,756
2016 No longer calculating or publishing this measure
2017
Measure ID 31053412.002.002
Measure Class Productivity
Measure Type Outcome
Year Type State FY
Preferred Trend Decrease
Frequency Annually
Statistical Unit Dollars
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