RALEIGH, N.C. -- A payment tech company is bringing 50 new jobs to Winston-Salem with an average salary of more than $95,000.
On Thursday, Governor Roy Cooper announced that The Clearing House Payments Company, LLC, will invest $24.6 million in this expansion.
The company owns and operates core payments system infrastructure in the U.S. and is modernizing that infrastructure by launching a new, real-time payment system. It is the only private-sector automated clearing house and wire operator in the nation, clearing and settling nearly $2 trillion U.S. dollars each day.
The Clearing House currently employs more than 170 people in Forsyth County. These people have positions in technology, operations, sales, legal, human resources, and other departments. Salaries for the new positions will vary with an average salary of $95,560.
The current average salary across Forsyth County is just over $51,000.
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