BlueLine Associates, a software development firm headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, announced plans today to open a Baton Rouge office in the Louisiana Technology Park on Florida Boulevard.
The company says the new office will eventually be home to 40 employees with an average salary of $40,000 plus benefits. The Baton Rouge office will be BlueLine’s fourth in the U.S. Established in 2009, the company provides business process management services to improve processes, support the implementation of information technology systems and create information management systems.
“BlueLine is very excited about expanding our presence to Baton Rouge,” says BlueLine President Rocky Silvestri in a prepared statement. “The new office will primarily focus on application development, so we plan on hiring local developers, QA engineers, project managers, support agents and supervisors, along with administrator managers. Our applications are contracted by startups and Fortune 500 companies.”
A news release from Gov. Bobby Jindal’s office issued this afternoon does not specify when the company plans to open the Baton Rouge office or when hiring will begin. Louisiana Economic Development says in the release that it began discussing a Baton Rouge office with BlueLine in October.
The state is offering the company an incentive package that includes workforce development assistance via LED’s FastStart program. The company also is expected to utilize Louisiana’s Digital Interactive Media and Software Development Incentive, as well as the Quality Jobs Program.
The digital media incentive provides for a 25.2% tax credit on qualified payroll for in-state labor and 18% for qualified production expenses through June 30, 2018, and a 35% tax credit on qualified payroll for in-state labor and 25% for qualified production expenses for expenditures on or after July 1, 2018. The Quality Jobs incentive provides a cash rebate of up to 6% of the company’s payroll on new jobs created for 10 years.
