NCDOT: Stimulus-funded construction payroll jumps 131% (Triangle Business Journal)
Transportation payroll funded by federal stimulus funds more than doubled in March, according to data compiled by the North Carolina Department of Transportation.
A total of $3.7 million in federal stimulus money was paid out to 4,740 workers in March. Those workers clocked 215,914 hours.
The payroll jumped 131 percent compared to February, when 2,887 workers earned $1.6 million for 119,843 hours of work.
The increases in March stopped a fourth-month decline in transportation stimulus payroll. NCDOT’s construction work typically slows down in the winter due to weather conditions before picking back up again in the spring.
Since stimulus jobs started in April of last year, $28.9 million in transportation construction payroll has been doled out to workers in North Carolina.
Friday, May 7, 2010
by Chris Baysden
