NYC employees cost ~$107,000/year [1]. They probably calculated that it take about 6 people months of labor to manually transcribe the data into an Excel spread

NYC employees cost ~$107,000/year [1]. They probably calculated that it take about 6 people months of labor to manually transcribe the data into an Excel spreadsheet (e.g. six people for a month, or whatever). [1] Or did, on average, a few years ago. Regardless, this is close enough for our purposes. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/nyregion/09salaries.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/09/nyregion/09salaries.html?_...