Administrative Disbursements Per Mile — 23rd Annual Highway Report

Administrative Disbursements Per State-Controlled Mile
2017 Annual Highway Report

Administrative disbursements typically include general and main-office expenditures in support of state-administered highways. They do not include project-related costs but occasionally include “parked” funds, which are funds from bond sales or asset sales awaiting later expenditure. They can therefore vary quite widely from year to year.

Administrative disbursements for state-owned roads totaled $8.8 billion in 2015, about 7.3% more than in 2013 ($8.2 billion), the last time this assessment was completed. This is about 6.1% of the total disbursements. Over the last decade, per-mile administrative disbursements have increased about 26%, less than the 46% increase in total disbursements, but more than the 18% increase in the Consumer Price Index (CPI). On a per-mile basis, 2015 administrative disbursements averaged $10,864 per state, ranging from a low of $1,043 in Kentucky to a high of $99,417 in Connecticut (Table 9, Administrative Disbursements per State-Controlled Mile, 2015).

Administrative Disbursements Per State-Controlled Mile