"Eventually every job is going to be a tech job."--Brenda Standridge, manager, Google's facility in Pryor, OK.
Pryor's industrial tax base increased to $430 million when Google came to town. The state of OK actually paid 23.9 million of Google's local property tax for 2016, and Google paid just $1.2 million, due to a business-friendly 1985 law. At the same time, state spending for education fell, and another city, Wagoner, had its education funding reduced from $18 million to $14 million, due in part to dropping oil prices/revenue. Google continues to get this kind of deal from the state for 5 years, then will pay its share of taxes reduced by depreciation on its equipment. Employment at Google in Pryor? 115 Google employees, 230 contractors for things like security and groundskeeping, and 150 part-time workers.
NYTimes, 12/12/2016
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