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Cost models and analysis for the people who run state vocational rehabilitation and Business Enterprise Programs. Every input is labeled sourced, modeled, or agency input, so you can check our work.
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WHITE PAPER · OCTOBER 2026
The Cost of Answering Questions in a State VR Agency
$359,000
per year, base case
57%
of the cost appears in no system
3
recommendations that do not reduce questions
What an agency spends to answer its own internal questions, built from cited BLS wage data and labeled estimates. Includes a check on two statistics that circulate without support, a low-to-high range, and four inputs you can collect in a week to run the model on your own numbers.