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