Shipt Expansion, Birmingham Initiative Propel Magic City’s Tech Sector

By Michael Tomberlin

Birmingham is abuzz from two major economic development announcements Thursday that will shape the city’s tech economy for generations to come.

Shipt’s decision to expand its Birmingham headquarters by investing $10 million and adding 881 jobs was certainly the big news of the day.

Those jobs will pay $48,300 on average and create a payroll of $1.1 billion over the next 20 years. “We’re really excited about the over 800 new jobs that are going to be coming to Birmingham,” Shipt CEO Bill Smith said. “These are going to be highly skilled, high-paying jobs in parts of our company such as software engineering, data science, operations, our experience team, our partner success team, marketing and other parts of the business. These are fantastic jobs. I’m really excited to see those come here.”

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