The Refineries of Contra Costa County
AN ECONOMIC ENGINE

GOOD-PAYING LOCAL JOBS

• Directly employ over 4,500 local workers
  
• Employ an additional 2,400 contractor workers annually
  
• Help support hundreds of small local businesses employing thousands of local workers
  
• Refinery workers typically earn more than $100,000 a year in salary and benefits — nearly twice the median pay for other local workers
  
• Benefits include ample retirement pensions, savings plans, health care and life insurance

“SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC BENEFITS”

• Spend an average $62 million a year with local contractors
  
• Spend an average $215 million a year for contracted maintenance, which generates:
     – Over $360 million in “gross county product”
     – $28 million in indirect business taxes
     – $36 million in hotels, meals and other travel-related spending by
         non-Contra Costa contractors
  
• Spend hundreds of millions more for ongoing facility improvements
  SOURCE: 2007 study commissioned by Contra Costa Economic Partnership

REVENUE FOR LOCAL SERVICES

• Add billions in assessed valuation to local property tax rolls
  
• Donate generously to local community service projects ­— including education, the arts, food banks, economic development, jobs and
  public safety
  
• Provide financial support, guidance and instruction for local
  community college vocational training programs
  
• Major sponsors of the East Bay Regional Park District’s
  “Volunteer Trail Safety Patrol”
  
• Refinery workers contribute thousands of volunteer hours for
  community service