How much would it cost to employ 400 people for 2 weeks?

[jsamuel]

How much would it cost to employ 400 people for 2 week?

Everyone shoots down this idea, but it may be the only way to keep the Dems from HALF-ASSING this.

Employ 4 people to take shifts in each Ohio county, video taping the county election offices.


At most, that would be 400 people. I have heard people utter 111,000 people and numbers like that. It only takes a few people per county and there are only 88 counties in Ohio.

[Wordie]

1. Aren't there lots of volunteer monitors? I thought the Greens were

actively recruiting them. How many have they gotten?

[jsamuel]

4. They have at least 2 per precinct or ward or something like that

Which would leave them tons of people to do this kind of thing. I really wish they would.

[seriousstan]

2. Simple math

400 x 14 x 8 x $ = 44800 x (hourly wage)

[bemis12]

3. Assuming

40 hours weeks, that's 32,000 hours.

At $10.00/hour, $320,000. Plus some payroll taxes, add 15% to 20% for that.

[jsamuel]

5. Ok, so maybe they could get volunteers then...

That is a hefty sum, but it still needs to be done.

[elehhhhna]

6. if temps, probably 12.00/hr (they'll get 6.00)...

if you run it yourself you can pay them better (figure your cost at pay-per hour + 15-17%) and get perhaps better quality employees.

32,000 man-hours @ 9.20/hr (8.00 pay rate plus burden cost)= about $295,000. Not including recruitment time, reference checks, supervision and all the attendant paperwork & filing.

[haele]

7. Hmmm... how much are you paying them?

What sort of contract are they going to be under - part time, full time, direct hire, temp agency workers or independent contract?
Who's going to administer the project?
Who's going to handle the logistics?
What are the fees and taxes required by the feds and the state to employ that many people?
Are you going to have some sort of transportation, lodging, food provided? What sort of supplies and utilities will you be needing? What's the cost of your base(es) of operations?

Even if they're volunteers, you're going to need to consider managing the tasking and logistics of employing 400 people. Rule of thumb (without going into an actual EVM process) for work in California; figure outside of wages, lodging, and other employee benefits, you'll be spending $35 in employer costs for every hour you'll employ them.

Baseline costs per week at 10 hours of operation a day, without the employees themselves - approximately $980,000 a week max for a project with 400 employees and 20 or so support staff. The employee costs - if you pay them or hire them out from a temp agency for, say $10 an hour - will probably come to around $150K - $250K a week. You might be able to swing a deal with a temp agency to knock down some of those costs, but you'd still be looking at the overhead operating costs.

And it's those costs that will kill ya.

Haele

[MercutioATC]

8. Can we outsource it to China?

...that'd bring the cost down a bit...