[Swanks]

At a hearing before the Senate Budget Committee last week, Parker said the cuts would require the Corps to cancel $190 million in already contracted projects providing 4,500 jobs.

So doing some quick math, $190M / 4500 headcount = average salary of $42k. But we know if benefits are factored in (say: $10,000 / per) the average salary of these "Projects" = $32k.

Hardly. I'm sure the mean average for engineering salaries is more like $50K +. But the bottomline here is that EVEN at the $42k figure, there's no money for anything other thean salaries on these "projects". Wheres the funding for capital equipment, supplies, construction, etc.

And that's the deal; the taxpayer gets NOTHING other than 4,500 gov't voters (er, servants) on the dole for their money.

Parket even admits it in his numbers.

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Actually the average total labor burden for a COE FTE is between 69k and 75k.