“I think that Charlotte is going to continue to be a very strong growth region. Charlotte is a great market for the financial services industry. The growth prospects over the next five years are some of the best in the country.”
- Bob James, president & CEO, North Carolina affiliate of Fifth Third
Fast Facts
Fifteen Fortune 1000 companies are headquartered in Charlotte: Bank of America, Belk, Carlisle, Chiquita, Duke Energy, Domtar, Family Dollar, Lowe’s, Nucor, Harris Teeter Supermarkets, Babcok & Wilcox, Sonic Automotive, SPX, Resolute Forest Products, and American Tire Distributors. Because of the large presence of Bank of America and Wachovia, A Wells Fargo Company. Charlotte has held the distinction as the nation’s second-largest banking center for many years, with $2.13 trillion in assets held.
- Nation’s second-largest banking center
- 15 Fortune 1000 companies headquartered in the Charlotte region
- More than 67,000 financial services sector employees in Charlotte USA
- More than 11,000 residents registered with either Series 27, 53, 6, 62, 63, 65, 66, or 7 licenses, and nearly 9,000 workers registered with the NASD’s broker dealer list
- 25,000 IT workers in the Charlotte-Gastonia-Concord, NC-SC MSA - roughly one out of every four IT workers employed in North Carolina and South Carolina
- More than 75 call centers and back offices with over 20 employing more than 500 workers
- Approximately 35 percent of Charlotte’s Center City residents estimated to be between the ages of 18 and 34
- Charlotte Douglas International Airport, seventh-busiest in the world, located just a 15-minute drive from uptown Charlotte
- Regional immigration averaging nearly 100,000 people each year, solidifying Charlotte USA as one of the fastest-growing metro areas in the U.S.
- Regional cost of living roughly 93 percent of the rest of the United States
Recent Announcements
- Metlife Inc. announces 1,300 new jobs for back office operations and the relocation of its US Retail headquarters in Charlotte over next two years
- Dixon Hughes Goodman expands its headquarters and presence as the largest CPA firm in the Southeast with the addition of 37 new jobs announced in Charlotte
- TZ Insurance Solutions LLC announces 125 jobs for its new office in Charlotte
- Williams and Fudge selects new office space in York County, announcing 100 new jobs to the region
- Extended Stay Hotels plans to expand their US headquarters by announcing 60 new jobs in Charlotte
- Charlotte area's largest community bank, Citizens South Bank, continues expanding in Monroe, NC
