Editing Richardson, Texas (section)

==Economy==
Despite declining economies in other parts of the [[United States]], from 2005 to 2009 Richardson had substantial increases in its economy. The city's total assessed property value went up from $8.3 billion in 2005 to $14 billion in 2017. Sales tax collection went up from $21 million in 2005 to an estimated $32.9 million in 2017.

Since 2008, both [[Standard & Poor's]] and [[Moody's]] have upgraded Richardson's credit rating to "AAA" from the previous rating of "AA+". At the time, Richardson was one of only four cities in the state of Texas and one of 88 cities in the nation with an "AAA" rating from Standard & Poor's. In 2015, the [[North Central Texas Council of Governments]] (NCTCOG) determined Richardson's daytime population to be 156,065 based on American Community Survey information.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rdc.nctcog.org/Members/ServiceGroup.aspx?id=15|title=Research and Information Services - Regional Data Center|website=rdc.nctcog.org|access-date=2017-06-20}}</ref> The economy remains rooted in the telecommunication industry. However, Richardson's property tax base is deep and extends beyond its telecommunication roots to include other sectors including insurance, health care, technology and finance. The tax base is diverse with the 10 leading taxpayers accounting for 16.17% of total assessed value.

On March 1, 2014, the Richardson Fire Department officially received its Class 1 ISO rating. The [[Insurance Services Office]] (ISO) is "a leading supplier of statistical, underwriting and actuarial information for the property/casualty insurance industry", and its rating is used to measure the quality and effectiveness of fire protection in a community. At the time, Richardson was one of only 56 municipalities in the country to achieve this highest rating, which tends to reduce property/casualty insurance premiums.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.cor.net/index.aspx?page=1955 |title=City of Richardson, TX : ISO 1 Rating |access-date=2019-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171107030114/https://www.cor.net/index.aspx?page=1955 |archive-date=2017-11-07 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Corporate headquarters===
[[File:Richardson August 2019 03 (Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas).jpg|thumb|[[Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas]]]]
[[MetroPCS|Metro by T-Mobile]],<ref>"{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120629225820/http://investor.metropcs.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=177745&p=irol-faq FAQs]}}." [[MetroPCS]]. Retrieved on March 17, 2010.</ref> [[Fossil Group]], [[Lennox International]], Vent-A-Hood, [[id Software]], [[VCE (company)|VCE]],<ref>{{Cite news |title= VCE, Major Cloud Computing Company, Plans Major Expansion in Richardson |work= Press release |date= March 15, 2011 |publisher= VCE, The Virtual Computing Environment Company |url= http://www.vce.com/about/media/news?id=tcm:20-476 |access-date= August 9, 2013 }}</ref> [[Blue Cross Blue Shield Association|BlueCross BlueShield of Texas]], [[RealPage]], [[Fujitsu|Fujitsu Network Communications]] (U.S. Headquarters) and Samsung Mobile have their corporate headquarters in Richardson.

===Major employers===
[[File:Sherman Street and Buckingham Road, Richardson, Texas.jpg|thumb|[[Fossil Group]] headquarters (in the background)]]
According to the Richardson Economic Development Partnership's listing on Major Employers (last updated May 2018),<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.telecomcorridor.com/site-selection/major-employers-1|title=Major Employers|date=March 7, 2017|website=Telecom Corridor}}</ref> the top employers in the city were:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! #
! Employer
! # of Employees
|-
| 1
|[[State Farm|State Farm Insurance]]
|8,000
|-
| 2
|[[AT&T Inc.]]
|5,000
|-
| 3
|[[Blue Cross and Blue Shield]] of Texas
|3,100
|-
| 4
|[[The University of Texas at Dallas]]
|2,674
|-
| 5
|[[Richardson Independent School District]]
|2,500
|-
|6
|[[RealPage]]
|2,100
|-
|7
|[[GEICO]]
|1,800
|-
| 8
|[[United Healthcare]]
|1,700
|-
| 9
|[[Raytheon]]
|1,700
|-
| 10
|[[Fujitsu|Fujitsu Network Communications]]
|1,500
|}