How much has Perdue revealed?

Gov. Beverly Perdue has given a taste of her budget.

In the past week, Perdue has declared she will increase per-pupil spending, boost pro-business initiatives, expand the Earned Income Tax Credit and spend more on parole and probation, among other things.

By far the largest promise so far was on education, though even there Perdue shied away from specifics. At a minimum, the governor could spend the same amount as this year and see per-pupil spending rise, thanks to an expected drop in the number of kindergarteners.

(That is a one-year quirk, however, caused by a change in state law that will push back at what age students start school.)

A rough estimate of the minimum spending on students Perdue has promised, then, would be about $8.1 billion, or about 38 percent of the current $21.5 billion budget.

The other spending she has promised so far totals $155.2 million, or less than one percent of the current budget.

After the jump, the math.

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$8,128,807,786: Increase per-pupil spending. (1,464,914 projected students x $5,549 per student at current rate. Actual proposed spending rate unknown.)

$47,000,000: Math federal water and sewer infrastructure spending

$41,000,000: Increase Earned Income Tax Credit from 5 to 6.5 percent. (Estimate from the N.C. Budget and Tax Center.)

$18,000,000: Exempt businesses with less than $100,000 in profits from certain state taxes. (Based on 2004 fiscal note for similar proposal.)

$17,000,000: Jobs Now workforce preparedness initiative.

$7,000,000: Main Street Solutions program for small- and medium-sized cities.

$5,986,277: Hire additional probation and parole officers.

$5,000,000: N.C. Green Business Fund.

$3,000,000: Promote aerospace and defense industries.

$2,545,790: Hire chief probation and parole officers.

$2,383,273: Raise pay grade for parole and probation officers.

$2,000,000: One North Carolina Small Business Fund.

$1,500,000: Promote business and tourism.

$1,264,689: Buy VIPER radios.

$1,235,311: Hire community corrections intake coordinators.

$239,525: Increase training for parole and probation officers.

Unknown: Exclude initial stock investment in startups from capital gains taxes.

SOURCES: Press releases from Perdue's office, General Assembly Fiscal Research Division, N.C. Budget and Tax Center.