Vendor claims government failed to provide 'clear direction' for the project Lindsay Clark Tue 27 Apr 2021 // 19:35 UTC Share Copy The US State of Maine has laid off 15 independent IT contractors, each paid $13,000 a month, who were working on its paused project to implement a new Workday HR and finance system, which is at least two years late and millions of dollars over budget. What exactly the contractors were doing during March is open to question since Workday suspended the project in February, owing to a contract dispute with the administration. Nonetheless, those techies-for-hire got an average of $13,000 each, at a rate $108 per hour, according to Kirsten Figueroa, commissioner of the Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services.