Campuses in Taylor and Austin poured $10.9 billion into local economies last year
At least $10.9 billion circulated in the Taylor area and Austin economy in 2025 thanks to construction jobs, employee salaries, taxes and worker spending related to construction of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.’s Taylor campus and operations at two semiconductor fab units in Austin.
A 39-page study conducted by economists at Impact DataSource LLC shows a total of nearly 4,500 permanent jobs at the Austin and Taylor campuses of Samsung Austin Semiconductor as of last year.
That includes 1,500 jobs in Taylor, a number that is expected to grow after the manufacturing facility is fully operational. An estimated 9,000 more indirect jobs were supported at employers such as materials suppliers and goods and services used by Samsung employees, according to the study.
In Taylor, nearly 6,700 construction workers were involved on the job site last year and created an estimated 7,600 additional jobs in the regional economy.
Salaries and wages in all those categories came to $2.03 billion, according to the study.
“When Samsung made a commitment to expand fab operations in Taylor, their suppliers, contractors and vendors immediately followed suit,” said Ben White, president of the Taylor Economic Development Corp. “We’re seeing the positive impact the company is having on our community and the jobs it’s creating. We will continue to strengthen our partnership with Samsung in addition to any companies that would like to call Taylor home.”
Taylor, Hutto and many other nearby communities have been courting more than 150 companies in the semiconductor supply chain that would like to be close to the major client.
The 2025 economic impact of Samsung in Taylor was $4.2 billion from a variety of sources.
For example, the study estimates the permanent workers spent 26% of their $233 million in combined salaries on taxable goods and services with $21.2 million spent in the Taylor city limits and $15.1 million in Austin.
There were an additional 786 out-of-town visitors staying in local hotels and spending in local restaurants and stores.
Taxes on sales, property and hotel stays along with spending on utilities pumped nearly $33 million into the Taylor Independent School District, the city of Taylor and Williamson County coffers last year, according to figures.
Charitable giving by Samsung across Williamson and Travis counties hit $4 million last year, according to the study, which used data supplied by the company.
On Thursday, Samsung officials announced another $22 million was being allocated to school districts, nonprofits in Taylor and Manor and workforce training.
“While construction on the Taylor campus progressed throughout 2025, significant campus operations also began in Q4 with the opening of the office building to hundreds of employees,” according to a statement from Samsung on the release of the third-party study. “The report highlights the effects resulting from both Taylor campus operations and the construction activities.”
Plans to build the second fab facility on the 1,200 acres on the edge of Taylor will keep the economic impact from construction rolling for several more years, officials said.
There also are plans to expand on an adjacent 600 acres at the Austin campus.
Samsung Austin Semiconductor plans to invest more than $37 billion in the region in the coming years, the company indicated.
The investment represents one of the largest foreign direct investments for a greenfield project in U.S. history, turning Taylor, into a significant hub for advanced semiconductor manufacturing, they added.
The South Korean tech giant announced in November 2021 it was bringing a multibillion- dollar chipmaking facility to Taylor.
The company’s original Austin site on Parmer Lane was created in February 1996.
