Apple plans to spice up its spending within the U.S. by 20%, double its Seattle workforce to 2,000

Apple announced Monday that it would increase its spending in the US by 20%, or $ 80 billion, over the next five years, as well as building a new office in North Carolina and doubling the Seattle workforce to 2,000.

The company announced it will invest more than $ 1 billion in North Carolina, with a new office in the Raleigh-Durham area and at least 3,000 new jobs. Many of these jobs will be in high tech areas like machine learning and artificial intelligence.

Total expenses include operations at its Cupertino, California headquarters and data centers across the country, as well as the US taxes it pays. Apple also announced a number of new investments.

Apple said it is expanding in Seattle, San Diego, Boston and Boulder, Colorado. The Seattle expansion includes adding at least 1,000 more employees over the next five years to the South Lake Union offices that recently opened for the company’s 1,000 employees currently working in the area, Apple said in a press release.

The company also announced a $ 100 million investment with a supplier called XPO Logistics to build an advanced distribution center in Clayton, Indiana, a small town outside Indianapolis.

Apple said it is on track to meet its 2018 goal of creating 20,000 new American jobs by 2023. On Monday it set a new goal of an additional 20,000 jobs in the US over the next five years. These jobs include some employees hired directly by Apple, as well as positions at Apple suppliers and data centers. Apple said those jobs now included dozens of TV productions in 20 states for its Apple TV + video streaming service.

The company announced that its total US spending would reach $ 430 billion over the next five years.

Apple added that it is spending tens of billions of dollars on silicon and 5G technology in Washington and eight other states.

In 2018, the company announced it would spend $ 350 billion in the country over the next five years. That figure included a one-time tax payment of $ 38 billion as $ billions of dollars were held overseas under the new tax law signed by then-President Donald Trump. By law, Apple saved an estimated $ 43 billion, more than any other company.

The Seattle Times businesspeople contributed to this report.

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