820 Jobs Coming to Hickory, North Carolina (Charlotte: home, salary, art)

[SunnyKayak]

Officials with Sutter Street Manufacturing, a subsidiary of home furnishings retailer Williams-Sonoma, announced plans to hire 820 people over the next five years to develop, build and distribute upholstered furniture in Hickory

Charlotte Observer | 04/14/2008 | Williams-Sonoma unit <br> to add 820 jobs in Hickory

[cooperwx]

Originally Posted by The article

The state committed to give Sutter Street up to $8.96 million in incentives if Sutter Street follows through on its promise to hire 820 people and sustain the jobs for 10 years.

It cost every NC resident about $1.50, but this certainly counters a trend in the state's furniture industry. That number of jobs, for that long, at the stated average salary equals $344.4 million.

[ddlove01]

that's going to be good for the area...one distribution plant is laying off 230 jobs before the 3rd quarter.