Apple employs more than HALF A MILLION people in the U.S.

Apple is claiming responsibility for creating over 500,000 jobs in the United States, according to its Web site Friday.

The website announced 514,000 jobs created or supported "by Apple at a time when the American-based corporation faces criticism of personnel for overseas factories with foreign workers.

American workers make up two thirds of the workforce in the world of Apple, according to their site.

These add to the other 210,000 jobs behind the operating system of mobile applications or IOS.

With more than 500,000 applications on the iPhone, iPad and iPod, to name a few - which just celebrated its 25 millionth download - job application IOS economy attributed by Apple for their production.

Issues published on Friday in their distribution were compiled by a study of the Analysis Group, a consulting firm that marked economic and financial direct and indirect employment of the corporation through 50 states.

The breakdown of the figure of 304,000 jobs outside of their IOS, Apple explains a percentage from its 246 U.S. retail stores - staffing an average of more than 100 employees per establishment, most of which are full time - and 7,700 US-based AppleCare call center advisors.

"The vast majority of our customer calls are handled by employees of the United States," Apple said on its website.

"Relocation of our call centers overseas to places like India, would reduce costs by 50 percent or more. But keeping these jobs in the U.S., as it helps us deliver a better experience customer. "

Among its indirect jobs accounted for, the study included work done by other companies to their own companies, like FedEx and UPS to ship their products.

Another company was exemplified Corning Incorporated, which manufactures most of the windows of the iPhone in Kentucky and New York.

The figures follow recent criticism of Apple employing 230,000 workers in China for the assembly of your hardware, according to a recent Forbes report, objected to maintain operations in the states of U.S. jobs.

Also come in a time in the U.S. continues to push through a cripplingly low unemployment rate, which was last reported in January by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as 8.3 percent of the workforce.
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