Appendix e
Report Methodology
Guide to the Job Projections and the 6/30/07Job Analysis
The information below provides a step-by-step guide to the procedure that was followed to convert the job projections into contract obligations. The contracted job and wage obligations are used as the base from which annual progress is measured.
As an example of how the new counting system works, we begin with numbers as you see them in the Job Projections:
Created Retained Avg. Wage Other Total Jobs
40 35 $36.24 15 90
(Numbers do not represent an actual project)
The next slide details how these projections are placed into our Employment Analysis System (the Chart).
Items to note:
•The Job Projections use an Average Wage while the Chart uses a Qualifying Wage
The Job Projections represents the wages that the company expects to pay the created and retained employees over the duration of the contract, this number is a projection.
The Chart uses the Qualifying Wage (which is legislatively set) to ensure that each job (created and/or retained) that the company is given credit for meets or exceeds Qualifying Wage used in the award.
•There are 2 entry points on the Chart for the “Number of Jobs at or Above the Qualifying Wage”
This is because many of the Department’s programs have the ability to include a “benefit value” in the base wages of employees before we measure how many jobs are at or above the Qualifying Wage. Some of the Department’s programs do not have this added benefit. Having two entry points on the Chart allows us to track jobs accurately either way.
The next two slides show how we count jobs after the necessary data is entered into the chart.
