*Due to the nature of construction work and firms working on multiple ARRA projects, a count of the number of employees may include double counting (employees working on multiple projects) and cannot be used as a “head count” of individual employees. Federal guidelines direct states to report full-time equivalents (FTE) employed by state and local Recovery Act projects. WSDOT calculated these numbers based on a standard 2,080 hour work year which is equivalent to 173 hours each month. All data has been updated to capture late reports.

• State and local stimulus projects have provided $222.4 million in payroll to employees working more than 5.58 million hours since the passage of the Recovery Act.
• The average wage paid for the work is more than $39 per hour.
• Workers earned over $994,000 logging more than 22,000 hours on Washington highway projects in October 2012.