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Estimated Number of Volunteers and Volunteer Hours During Previous Week (13.2.2N)

As shown in Table 13.2.2N, from a monetary standpoint, the contributions made by volunteers staff to the A2H system are very extensive.

Table 13.2.2N
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF VOLUNTEERS AND VOLUNTEER HOURS DURING PREVIOUS WEEK

	Pantry Programs	Kitchen Programs	Shelter Programs
Average Number of Volunteers Hours	35	58	51
Number of Programs	29,647	5,601	4,143
Total Number of Volunteer Hours During Previous Week	1,037,645	324,858	211,293
Total Dollar Value Of Volunteer Hours During Previous Week ($7.90/hour) a	$8,197,396	$2,566,378	$1,669,215

a The hourly wage used here ($7.90) is the midpoint of the current minimum wage ($5.15) and the average hourly earning from service occupations ($10.65).  The latter was obtained from U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics:  “National Compensation Survey:  Occupational Wages in the United States, 2004.”  August 2005, Table 1, p. 3.

Key findings are:

• The value of volunteer time in pantry programs in a typical week is nearly $8.2 million.
• Comparable estimates for kitchen and shelter programs are $2.6 million and $1.7 million, respectively.