Salaries of Ford Credit employees started at about $25,000 with medical benefits, corporate profit-sharing, 401(k) retirement plan and bonus pay. Ford Credit, established in 1959, has 19,000 employees in 40 countries and is a wholly owned subsidiary of Ford Motor Co. In the late 1990s, call centers became a cluster industry in Las Vegas as companies such as Williams-Sonoma, Marin Credit Card, MicroAge and USA Group came here to take advantage of a 24-hour work force and tax incentives for large employers. Critics of the industry said call centers provided mostly low-paying jobs, which is why most of them were outsourced to India and other countries. "We saw them start to come back from offshore," Hollingsworth said. "We were talking to a lot of them. There's just a lot of incentives offered in other cities. The competition is heated. A lot of them went to Utah. People want to create jobs. I don't care how much it pays, just create a job." The announcement comes as Heck prepares to meet this week with his economic advisers to discuss ways to stabilize and grow the local economy.