Household Final Demand Employment

I recently purchased the aggregated I-RIMS multipliers for a specific 5 county region in western NY/ PA. The household industry data indicates a final demand employment number of 95. I guess I am concerned that that seems pretty high. The final demand employment multipliers for other industries in the region ranges between 2 and 39. In this particular project, we would be distributing about $7.6 million dollars directly to households, which would result in total generated employment of about 726 people. That seems high to me for an influx of only $7.6 million. Given the earnings multipliers and results, that would amount to an average of about $13,000 in earnings per job. This seems low to me, even though I know that the jobs and earnings represent both full and part time workers. My gut is telling me the final demand employment multiplier is high- what do you think? Is there a good reason for the high number or some justification that I can provide? Or maybe I am doing something wrong? I have worked with multipliers for Colorado on other projects and the final demand employment multipliers for households in those regions are much lower- I realize that CO and NY are two completely different areas, but the CO regions I checked were between 9 and 14 jobs per $1m of output for final employment.
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  • Hi Susan, We sincerely apologize, it appears that our calculation for households varied from RIMSII. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are currently working to correct this and will have a new report for you this afternoon/evening. Please let us know if you have any additional questions. IMPLAN Support Team
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  • Will you be checking and verifying all the multipliers for the region? I need to be sure that all multipliers for all industries are correct. Thanks, Susan
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  • Hi Susan, We certainly will be and again we apologize about the issues. When you get your new report, you shouldn't see much change in the other sectors, though there will be a little.
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