Cost of start-up activities to implement a community-level opioid overdose reduction intervention in the HEALing Communities Study

Table 2 Hiring and training start-up cost of implementing the communities that HEAL intervention across all sites

	Hours		Reported wage		Using O*NET Wages—State		Using O*NET Wages—National
	Mean	Median	Mean	Median	Mean	Median	Mean	Median
All Hiring Staff (N = 45)	771	438	$45,018	$28,992	$39,293	$25,181	$43,592	$40,087
All Training (N = 197)	1143	1146	$54,292	$55,361	$68,150	$71,005	$67,620	$61,290
Trainers (N = 84)	230	125	$15,681	$10,714	$21,515	$9,755	$18,502	$17,010
Trainees (N = 113)	913	798	$38,610	$35,631	$46,635	$41,111	$49,118	$44,280
Total hiring and training	1914	1449	$99,310	$75,326	$107,443	$98,112	$111,212	$101,377

All costs reported in 2019 dollars; costs calculated as Total Cost = (∑ Hours* Wage); O*NET is Occupational Information Network (National Center for O*NET Development, 2022). O*NET wages include 34% fringe

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