This study contributes to intervention literature by examining the role of economic interests on the decision to intervene in civil conflicts. Specifically this analysis addresses how the economic salience of a conflict or conflict country influences the decision by highincome OECD states to intervene either economically or militarily. Using ordered logit and multinomial logit models, this study finds that economic interests do influence the decision to intervene. The findings also indicate that economic salience does not affect intervention type equally. Higher levels of foreign direct investment was associated with a positive likelihood of utilizing military intervention and a negative likelihood of utilizing economic intervention. Trade and oil negatively affect the likelihood of military intervention while not having a significant effect on economic intervention.