U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) announced on April 23, peripheral industry of semiconductors  creates jobs across the United States for more than 100 million people. SIA said in a news release in November 2012, the semiconductor industry employed 24.48 million people in the United States. This figure is the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BureauofLaborStatistics: BLS) survey results (2011 data). According to the BLS, the semiconductor industry, the number of people employed 3.7 percent more than in 2010. Compared with 1.2% of the United States as a whole, the growth rate is very high.The announcement of the employment figures are created by the peripheral industries of the semiconductor industry. Including the employment opportunities created by the suppliers of the semiconductor industry, to be employed by the semiconductor industry's consumption activities to create employment opportunities,  the taxes paid by the semiconductor industry to create government jobs. BLS data show that peripheral industries to create employment opportunities for the semiconductor industry directly employed persons (24.48 million), 4.89-fold to 119.707 million. SIA's data shows that the semiconductor industry employment multiplier is higher than other industries. Manufacturing an average of 2.91 times; automotive industry is up to 4.64, but still below 4.89 times the semiconductor industry; construction of 1.9 times; communications industry was 2.52 times.