Company size. 1  $39K 10,001+ employees 10,001+ employees has a median base salary of $39K. 2  $36K 1,001-10,000 employees between 1,001 and 10,000 employees has a median base salary of $36K. 3  $36K 201-1,000 employees between 201 and 1,000 employees has a median base salary of $36K.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was instituted by presidential executive order under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of April 1935, to generate public jobs for the unemployed. The WPA was restructured in 1939 when it was reassigned to the Federal Works Agency.
The WPA rebounded briefly when the economy worsened in late 1937 to early 1938; Congress in June 1938 significantly increased its funds. By that October, the state WPA peaked, with 55,000 workers. In 1939 the agency began its final decline, and Congress renamed it the Works Projects Administration. By 1940, Roosevelt focused increasingly on World War II, which had begun in Europe. He reduced the size of the WPA.