Missouri Student Unions Money Matters
Salaries, Wages, and Benefits

Providing excellent service to MU’s faculty, staff, and students,
starts with our excellent Missouri Student Unions staff.

A holistic view of any organization reveals that the number one activity-type expense is most always your personnel cost. Personnel costs include the salaries, wages, and benefits that are paid to the organizations employees.

The Missouri Student Unions are a very labor intensive organization. Of our total expenditure budget of $2,299,301,
our personnel cost is approximately 42.8% of the entire budget. The Student Unions employ students into its
workforce wherever possible (12.1% of staff ) in order to give our students a real-world experience before graduation.
Salaries and wages to full-time staff make up 47.6% of our personnel cost, with benefits coming in at 18.9%.

	Missouri Student Unions Personnel by Cost Type
			Type of Personnel Cost   Dollars Spent   Percent     Wages   $469,075   47.6%     Salaries   $196,863   19.9%     Benefits   $187,178   18.9%     Students   $119,717   12.1%     GRA's   $12,664   1.2%     Total   $985,499   100%

An additional look at the Missouri Student Unions personnel costs reveal the keeping the facility in good order constitutes the majority of the personnel dollars. Housekeeping and maintenance staffs comprised of approximately 53% of the entire personnel cost.

	Missouri Student Unions Personnel Cost by Functional Area
			Functional Area Personnel Cost   Dollars Spent   Percent     Housekeeping   $187,824 19.0%     Maintenance   $340,636 34.5%     Meeting Rooms   $259,886 26.3%     Administration   $142,057 14.4%     TA Brady's   $42,429 4.3%     SUPB   $12,64 1.2%     Total   $985,499   100%