American bank. In 2025 Citigroup announced it would expand its operations in Charlotte, North Carolina, hiring 510 people with an average salary of around $132,000—almost twice North Carolina's median household income. The expansion is part of a broader shift of financial-industry jobs away from New York.
The perversity of nature is nowhere better demonstrated by the fact that, when exposed to the same atmosphere, bread becomes hard while crackers become soft.