Example of workload factors and wage adjustments: primary and secondary education*
| Jurisdiction | Workload variables and weights | “Representative” total expenditures per capita ($) | Actual total expenditures per capita ($) | Index of variation in services provided (USA = 100) | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) | (b) | (c) | (d) | (e) | (f) | (g) | |
| Source: Rafuse.24 *See appendix for breakdown of workload factors used in the calculation of services indices for other expenditure categories. | |||||||
| Elementary school age share of population (%) (weight 0.6) | Secondary school age share of population(%) (weight 1.0) | Children in poverty share of population (%) (weight 0.25) | Index of wage levels(%) | (Estimates derived from factors (a)−(d)) | (Actual expenditures (f) as a percentage of representative expenditures (e)) | ||
| USA average | 11.99 | 5.85 | 5.67 | 100.0 | 644.14 | 644.14 | 100.0 |
| Alabama | 12.92 | 6.60 | 7.96 | 92.9 | 695.24 | 420.92 | 60.5 |
| Minnesota | 11.61 | 5.60 | 4.20 | 101.5 | 637.43 | 750.67 | 117.8 |