The Ford Motor Company will send out checks averaging $8,000 to 109,000 employees on Friday.
Last October, checks averaging just under $700 went to a million homeowners.
More than two years later, polls continue to show strong support for expanding background checks, averaging 80%.
With dinner checks averaging $100 or so a couple, without wine, it is the town's costliest place to eat.
But these same politicians are eager to cut checks averaging $3 million each to the richest 120,000 people in the country.
Mr. Elias said that 4.4 million of them had gotten checks averaging $68 and that 1 million accounts had been credited an average of 31 cents.
The results were good news for United States employees of the Chrysler side of DaimlerChrysler, who will receive profit sharing checks averaging $8,100 this year, a record.
G.M. is not adding a bonus to the checks, as the Ford Motor Company is in giving its hourly workers checks averaging $5,000 each, Ms. Childers-Arb said.
But Ford workers were accustomed to checks averaging $4,671 and Chrysler workers were used to an average of $5,654 while their companies were cashing in on the S.U.V. boom.
At Ford, which recorded a $9 billion profit in its home market last year, more than 56,000 unionized auto workers will receive profit-sharing checks averaging $9,000.
