Jamie Dupree

$96,305.80 Per Job

Jamie Dupree

@ February 17, 2010 12:00 AM Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

There has been a lot of political back-and-forth over how many jobs have been created by the Economic Stimulus law approved a year ago today. How about how much has it cost per job?

Just like the "jobs created/saved" figure, this is not an easy one to pin down overall.

To see what I could find out, I went over to recovery.gov, which is the web site that was set up by the Obama Administration for tracking where stimulus money went to grants awarded by a variety of federal agencies.

So, let's be clear first of all - this is not all of the stimulus money - but, still a big chunk of it.

A lot of information is available on the billions in grant money that has been distributed so far, as the recovery.gov web site has been cleansed of Congressional districts that did not exist and errant zip codes as well.

Let's get right to the numbers.

In terms of grant money, the website says that $198,513,850,123 has been awarded so far - that's $198.5 billion.

Of that, $57.3 billion has actually been doled out in awards - which has resulted in 595,262.53 "Jobs Created/Saved."

That rounds to 595,263, which is prominently displayed on the home page.

So, a little elementary math. Take that $57.3 billion figure (the grants awarded) and divide it by the number of jobs (595,262.53.)

For those of you scoring at home, that equals $96,305.80 per job.

You can see the state-by-state data at http://bit.ly/9EStiB .

But if you just want the basics, here is a little chart, with the state, the amount of grant money actually sent to that state as of last week, the number of jobs created/saved and then the average cost per job.

Alabama	$826,647,216	12,978.41	$63,694.03
Alaska	$347,970,768	1,519.67	$228,977.85
Arizona	$1,083,781,423	6,855.48	$158,089.79
Arkansas	$559,077,470	2,825.57	$197,863.61
California	$7,736,206,033	70,745.40	$109,352.78
Colorado	$942,693,346	9,373.74	$100,567.47
Connecticut	$509,774,625	7,026.39	$72,551.43
Delaware	$142,660,103	1,523.23	$93,656.31
DC	$496,392,576	3,698.60	$134,210.94
Florida	$2,441,663,307	34,887.17	$69,987.43
Georgia	$2,062,269,217	24,070.81	$85,675.11
Hawaii	$247,544,856	3,014.05	$82,130.31
Idaho	$582,733,981	6,157.59	$94,636.70
Illinois	$3,095,362,170	11,280.21	$274,406.43
Indiana	$1,576,329,533	15,056.08	$104,697.21
Iowa	$837,544,677	9,100.88	$92,028.98
Kansas	$587,013,620	6,536.53	$89,805.08
Kentucky	$782,496,072	10,645.99	$73,501.48
Louisiana	$835,474,354	11,358.69	$73,553.76
Maine	$306,602,631	2,081.69	$147,285.44
Maryland	$1,170,841,544	6,750.69	$173,440.28
Massachusetts	$950,121,584	9,227.03	$102,971.55
Michigan	$2,194,431,242	20,122.03	$109,056.16
Minnesota	$1,090,908,532	12,277.57	$88,853.78
Mississippi	$670,429,968	3,338.20	$200,835.77
Missouri	$936,191,489	16,081.38	$58,215.87
Montana	$399,407,131	4,116.04	$97,036.75
Nebraska	$322,232,804	3,823.40	$84,279.12
Nevada	$413,752,785	3,148.64	$131,406.82
New Hampshire	$294,055,384	1,292.52	$227,505.48
New Jersey	$1,665,411,011	21,493.35	$77,484.94
New Mexico	$532,755,974	4,573.02	$116,499.81
New York	$2,000,764,685	42,841.66	$46,701.38
North Carolina	$1,760,348,445	26,094.47	$67,460.59
North Dakota	$408,509,815	2,697.45	$151,442.96
Ohio	$1,696,776,417	24,694.05	$68,711.95
Oklahoma	$925,190,660	7,971.89	$116,056.63
Oregon	$753,372,529	9,636.25	$78,181.09
Pennsylvania	$968,885,541	12,257.69	$79,043.08
Rhode Island	$233,010,645	1,336.36	$174,362.18
South Carolina	$1,343,642,609	10,997.82	$122,173.54
South Dakota	$379,899,281	1,994.14	$190,507.83
Tennessee	$1,217,414,590	10,249	$118,783.74
Texas	$2,765,673,282	28,460.68	$97,175.24
Utah	$818,497,100	4,739.54	$172,695.47
Vermont	$200,838,301	1,523.19	$131,853.74
Virginia	$1,063,880,578	9,834.32	$108,180.39
Washington	$1,890,405,519	14,374.14	$131,514.34
West Virginia	$308,130,421	2,186.47	$140,925.98
Wisconsin	$1,270,787,636	10,273.24	$123,698.82
Wyoming	$125,591,946	837.65	$149,933.68
American Samoa	$4,448,608	135.71	$32,780.25
Fed States Micron.	$0
Guam	$39,122,275	335.33	$116,667.98
Marshall Islands	$37,431
Northern Mariana Islands	$15,805,537	138.36	$114,234.87
Palau	$415,769	12.04	$34,532.31
Puerto Rico	$448,939,319	14,506.27	$30,947.95
U.S. Virgin Islands	$19,415,186	151.76	$127,933.49
Not Assigned	$26,695,584	3	$8,898,528.00
Total	$57,327,277,133	595,263	$96,305.80

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Great Job Mr. Dupree
I try to catch you every morning on WOKV. Thanks for breaking down the math on this. It's the only way to show people how outrageous the spending is.
By Joel @ 02/19/10 10:42:34 AMreport abuse
What Mr. Dupree leaves out...
.....would fill a book. let it suffice to say that he makes no effort here to define a job as something that will exist on its own as soon as the money goes away.

Do some digging into facts that do not reflect well on Democrats instead of repeating their own data.

It is your job.

Right, Mr. Dupree?
By James Harper @ 02/18/10 07:00:45 AMreport abuse