-2013 salary of Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian: $72,000
-2013 average salary of principal executive officials in the Bureau of Labor and Industries: $94,685
-Percent of Oregon wage and salary workers with union membership in 2012: 15.7
-Percent of Oregon wage and salary workers with union membership in 2013: 13.9
-Average percent of union membership among Oregon wage and salary workers, 2004-2013: 15.43
-Oregon workers represented by unions but not members of unions in 2013: 15,000
-Average amount more that skilled union workers earn per week than non-union workers: $200
-Oregon National Guardsmen deployed to Afghanistan in August 2014: about 900
-Number of new grants awarded by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to Oregon for homeless assistance: 18
-Amount those HUD homeless assistance grants are equivalent to: $2,400,180
-Estimated number of people experiencing homelessness from the point in time count in Oregon for January 2013: 13,822
Sources: Oregon.gov Open Data Portal, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Oregon National Guard; Department of Housing and Urban Development; HUD 2013 Annual Homeless Report to Congress, Point in Time Estimates