Apple poised for hiring spree in Silicon Valley
Source: AP
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Apple expects to expand its Silicon Valley workforce by nearly 50 percent during the next three years, signaling the company's faith in its ability to keep coming up with hit products like the iPhone and iPad.
The projections detailed in a report released Tuesday envision Apple hiring 7,400 more workers at its Cupertino, Calif., headquarters between now and the planned completion of a new office complex in 2016. Apple Inc. now employs about 16,000 people in and around Cupertino, the company's home town for most of its 37-year history. That accounts for about one-fifth of Apple's nearly 73,000 employees worldwide.
Apple submitted the report to Cupertino city officials as part of its effort to win approval to build a new 3.4 million-square-foot campus. Former CEO Steve Jobs likened the proposed campus to a spaceship in his final public appearance four months before he died in October 2011 after a long fight with pancreatic cancer.
The report estimates Apple paid the 16,000 employees working in the Cupertino area a combined $2 billion in salary last year. That translates into an average salary of $125,000 per Cupertino-area employee. Apple didn't provide Keyser Marston with specific salary figures, so the firm used salary data for Silicon Valley software engineers filed with the state government. The numbers represent a "conservative" estimate of the employees' salaries, according to the report.
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They want H1B visa holders, right? 
When you're a fanboi..........all news is good nes
