Festival pumps $255M to Austin economy

​​AUSTIN – The 2017 Austin City Limits Music Festival pumped $255 million into the city’s economy, released by the festival’s organizers C3 Presents.​

Since 2006, Angelou Economics found that the festival has had a $1.7 billion economic impact and created or sustained 18,511 jobs.

The festival in 2017 alone supported the equivalent of 2,588 jobs, creating about $96.5 million in wages.

Austin City Limits is held at Zilker Park at 2100 Barton Springs Rd. every year.​​