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Labor Cost Benchmarking

Benchmarking Consortium

Measure academic and administrative labor costs and benchmark internally and externally against other members to inform strategic planning and manage budgets.

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Balance the scale to maintain financial health

Keeping administrative and academic staffing investments balanced with the mission and financial goals of your institution are imperative. Conduct ongoing activity-based cost analysis so you can more accurately evaluate levels of centralization and areas of opportunity to invest or reallocate. Plus, compare ongoing workforce investments among internal departments and with other member institutions. 

  • Manage labor spend to contain costs or make strategic investments
  • Inform key financial processes, like annual budgeting, resource or strategic planning, with more precise data
  • Evaluate alignment with your strategic plan to demonstrate good financial stewardship and sustainability

 

Why join the Benchmarking Consortium?

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Conduct workforce planning.

Identify under-resourced areas for reinvestment, over-resourced areas for reallocation, and determine how competitive your institution is in recruiting and retaining staff.

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Benchmark against member institutions.

Understand how your investment in revenue-generating activities compares to other UC system institutions and other members.

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Support key financial processes.

Put your data to work in aligning annual budgets, resource plans, and strategic planning.

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Impact student success.

Demonstrate how labor spend investment can translate into improvements in enrollment, retention, and completion.

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Demonstrate financial sustainability for accreditation.

Manage finances in alignment with your mission and strategic planning, plus provide evidence of good financial stewardship.

Unlock labor cost insights with the HelioCampus Benchmarking Consortium

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Go deeper on the impact of staffing and satisfaction

Understand where the institution is generating value and satisfaction while also revealing potential areas of underinvestment in resources from a people, process, or technology standpoint with our Administrative Quality and Satisfaction Surveys (AQSS). These surveys provide a more complete picture of the effectiveness of your labor investments by surveying faculty and staff on their satisfaction with administrative service units.

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Expand your insights

Connect directly to a nightly extract of your benchmarking data so you can pull it into other platforms. Combine it with other institutional data or perform additional analyses using any tool of your choice.

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"With HelioCampus’ Standard Activity Model (SAM) for student services, we were able to break down the nebulous idea of student success into distinct parts. Now, we can use that data to glean nuggets of information that we can share across colleges to guide their investments and boost student success."
Nicole Dolan
Director of Budget Development
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"For Temple, the data were critical for strategically addressing resource allocation and avoiding across the board approaches to both budget cuts and investments."
Ken Kaiser
Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
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“Connecting with other member institutions was eye-opening. All of the folks there were using a tool similar to what we are using here at John Jay—and to be able to share stories and insights with them? Well, that’s powerful.”
Mark Flower
VP and COO

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HelioCampus gives you a clear line of sight into financial risks and opportunities within your institution. Let us help you uncover unseen trends and insights to better inform budget cycles, workforce allocation, and strategic planning.

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