Stone: What Are You Paying These Construction Workers?
Rep. Jeff Stone, R-Greendale, wasn't buying the projection that the Capitol Budget will result in 30,000 construction jobs.
Rob Cramer, secretary for the Building Commission, had explained earlier that the building plan creates 30 jobs per $1 million in spending.
Admitting he's "no mathmetician," Stone said, but his calculations show that amounts to about $33,000 per worker. Knowing what construction workers make, Stone said under Cramer's estimate "there wouldn't be anything left to build the building."
Cramer said the estimate includes a multiplier over the entire Capital Budget, and suggested all the jobs would not be full-time jobs.
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