State budget by the numbers

Compiled by the Sacramento Bee

Since you are probably as sick of reading all the budget rhetoric as we are of writing it, here's a rundown on the standoff. In cold, hard numbers:

70: Days into the 2008-09 fiscal year without a state budget.

$4.25 billion: Payments that state Controller John Chiang couldn't make in July and August because of the missing budget.

$7.6 billion: Payments that will go unmade in September if there's no budget.

$1.1 million: Amount that state lawmakers will earn this month, more or less (though they won't be paid until after a budget passes). This doesn't include per diem.

0: How many times California lawmakers and the governor have taken this long in years past to finish a budget.

873: Number of bills that state lawmakers have passed but not sent to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

342: Senate bills being withheld.

531: Assembly bills being withheld.

0: Number of bills Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said (on Aug. 6) that he would sign before there was a budget.

1: Number of bills Schwarzenegger has signed so far. (He broke his pledge in order to sign AB 3034, which amended the high speed rail measure on the November ballot.)

10,300: Temporary employees the governor laid off by executive order.

$6.55: The federal minimum hourly wage -- and the amount Schwarzenegger wants to pay state workers to conserve cash during the budget crunch.

0: State workers who have been paid the federal minimum wage.

85: Days since the state constitutional deadline (June 15) to pass the 2008-09 state budget.

125: Days until the constitutional date (Jan. 10) that Schwarzenegger must present the 2009-10 budget.

0 percent: Chance that Senate Democrats will pass the GOP budget plan, which is expected to be put up for a vote at 2 p.m. today.