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 Union is a very labor intensive organization. Of our total expenditure budget of $2,215,990, our personnel cost is almost exactly 50% of the entire budget. The Missouri Student Unions employs students into its workforce wherever possible (9.4% of staff ) in order to give our students a real-world experience before graduation. Salaries and wages to full-time staff make up 71% of our personnel cost, with benefits coming in at 19.6%.

	Missouri Student Unions Personnel by Cost Type
			Type of Personnel Cost   Dollars Spent   Percent     Wages   $532,120   47.9%     Salaries   $256,835   23.1%     Benefits   $218,081   19.6%     Students   $82,478   7.5%     GRA's   $21,574   1.9%     Total   $1,111,087.20   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   $309,673 27.9%     Maintenance   $273,043 24.6%     Meeting Rooms   $240,120 21.6%     Administration   $211,864 19.1%     TA Brady's   $64,980 5.8%     SUPB   $11,407 1.0%     Total   $1,111,087.20   100%