In Washington State, the Self-Sufficiency Calculator is an online tool created by the Workforce Development Council of Seattle-King County to support career planning with customers and to track progress toward economic self-sufficiency. Career counselors working under the Workforce Investment Act use the Calculator as a counseling tool, empowering customers to better understand financial situation, goals, opportunities, and challenges. Using the calculator, career counselors gather customer data to measure whether customers move closer to economic self-sufficiency while participating in our programs. The Calculator received the NPower Seattle’s 2009 Innovation Award