Table 4

Projected employment and household earnings effects of bid proposals to manufacture 235 railcars for LA Metro

Siemens Kinkisharyo CAF USA
Household earnings Jobs
created*		 Household earnings Jobs
created*		 Household earnings Jobs
created*
Los Angeles region
Direct effects $50,305,940  563 $52,856,989 200 $62,402,504  205
Indirect effects 38,120,456  416 41,038,166 152 47,931,540  144
Induced effects 32,729,357  509 34,753,470 184 40,838,029  179
Total $121,155,753  1,488 $128,648,626 536 $151,172,073  529
California
Direct effects $95,626,635  1,114 $54,308,033  209  **  **
Indirect effects 91,065,244  1,525 51,717,540  286  **  **
Induced effects 74,531,399  1,803 42,327,681  338  **  **
Total $261,223,278  4,442 $148,353,254 833  **  **
United States
Direct effects *** *** $89,016,354  354  **  **
Indirect effects *** *** 59,533,547  461  **  **
Induced effects *** *** 57,712,942  529  **  **
Total  ***  *** $206,262,843  1,344  **  **

* Represents gross full-time-equivalent jobs

** The CAF USA proposal supplied to EPI lacked sufficient vendor information to produce state and national employment effect estimates.

*** The Siemens proposal supplied to EPI lacked sufficient vendor information to produce national employment effect estimates.

Notes: All estimates are based upon direct-effect multipliers for earnings and jobs.

Source: Author's analysis of data from U.S. employment plans and price forms, P3010 railcar bid, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, supplied by Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, April 4, 2012

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