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Centene Corporation announced on July 1 that it had selected Charlotte as the future home of its new East Coast headquarters, creating more than 3,237 new jobs in the city.

Centene will invest $1,034,900,790 to develop a state-of-the-art corporate campus in the University City neighborhood. The campus will house the 3,200 employees for the FORTUNE® 50 company and feature an on-site daycare center and corporate “university” for professional development. The campus will be developed in four phases and include two office buildings, a data center, and the corporate university center. Available roles will include technology, operations, customer service, finance, human resources, medical management positions, and other corporate positions with an average annual salary of $100,089. More than 1,000 of the new positions are operations roles with an average salary of $63,000.

With Centene’s commitment of 3,237 jobs and more than $1 billion in capital investment, the announcement represents the largest economic development project in the history of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Business Investment Grant program by jobs and capital investment. It is the largest project to be announced in North Carolina by job creation since the Job Development Investment Grant program began.

Learn more - https://charlottenc.gov/newsroom/cityhighlights/Pages/3200-New-Jobs-in-Charlotte.aspx