This Is Private Equity

A Driving Force For

Economic Opportunity

Private equity is a driving force for economic growth and opportunity for America – supporting millions of jobs in local communities across the country. It allows America to invest in itself, create jobs, and diversify the portfolios funding our retirement security. It drives new growth and gives struggling businesses a second chance.

Private equity is playing a key role in driving America’s future.

Now, a new report by EY is highlighting Private Equity’s previously-unreported impacts – directly supporting millions of jobs, good wages, and local communities.

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Private Equity is Investing in America:

Private Equity supports – directly or indirectly – more than 26 million American jobs. This includes:

Direct employment of
8.8 million American workers

Average wages and benefits
of $71,000 per year

Supply chain employment of
7.2 million workers

Related consumer spending
supporting 10.4 million workers

Private Equity is helping to rebuild America’s manufacturing base while also supporting millions of jobs in the tech, hotel and transportation trade, driving technological innovation, and securing America’s leadership role in the global economy.

What Private Equity Means
For Local Businesses:

Private Equity is making a real impact for thousands of local companies and their employees across the country – just like Inland Coating in Adel, Iowa.

What Private Equity Means For
The American Economy:

The report also finds that U.S. Private Equity now supports five percent of America’s GDP.

The study also shows that Private Equity is investing in local communities across the country – playing a vital role in the tax base of our states and local communities, supporting critical investments in schools, transportation, infrastructure and other key priorities.

Private equity is making an impact – allowing America to invest in itself, create jobs, and diversify the portfolios funding our retirement security.

View our press release here:

“New EY Report Shows Private Equity’s Positive Impact on U.S. Economy”