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Spot hidden labor costs
Traditional org charts only tell part of the story. By looking beyond departments and job titles to the actual work people do, you're able to evaluate true costs of job roles and services. HelioCampus Labor Cost Analytics enables you to take an activity-based approach to optimize your workforce, target investments, and reevaluate inefficiencies before cuts become inevitable.
Gain clarity with activity-based cost insights
Gain a more nuanced view of your workforce that's difficult to build with your ERP or chart of accounts alone. Our activity-based approach ensures visibility into redundancies across decentralized orgs so you can contain costs, and enables you to compare or benchmark labor spend and staffing across your institution or with member institutions.
Balance cost containment and quality of services
Centralization & Administrative Insights
Use data to support budgeting focused on managing expenses, revenue generation, and strategic investment. Optimize staffing levels and service quality while managing impact on centralization efforts.

Invest where it matters most for student success
Student Support Insights
Evaluate your staffing investment to determine the most effective distribution of labor across the institution, including services, facilities, and more that support student success.

Optimize your workforce for today—and tomorrow
Staffing & Workforce Retention Insights
Analyze labor spend to optimize your staffing mix and compensation, support organizational restructuring, and inform hiring and retention initiatives.

Align resources to drive teaching and research excellence
Academic Unit & Faculty Insights
Optimize the balance between administrative and instructional staff in your schools and colleges. Plus better align resources to academic and research needs.

Balance cost containment and quality of services
Centralization & Administrative Insights
Use data to support budgeting focused on managing expenses, revenue generation, and strategic investment. Optimize staffing levels and service quality while managing impact on centralization efforts.

Invest where it matters most for student success
Student Support Insights
Evaluate your staffing investment to determine the most effective distribution of labor across the institution, including services, facilities, and more that support student success.

Optimize your workforce for today—and tomorrow
Staffing & Workforce Retention Insights
Analyze labor spend to optimize your staffing mix and compensation, support organizational restructuring, and inform hiring and retention initiatives.

Align resources to drive teaching and research excellence
Academic Unit & Faculty Insights
Optimize the balance between administrative and instructional staff in your schools and colleges. Plus better align resources to academic and research needs.

How it works
A new lens for your data
Visualize your HR, payroll, and departmental data in our labor cost analytics platform. Plus we make it easy to export back to your institutional platforms to combine it with other sources or perform additional analyses.
Labor-focused data models
Our Standard Activity Model and analysis factors normalize your data which enables your institution to compare labor costs internally and benchmark against member institutions with confidence.
Supercharged analysis
Our analysts partner with you to deep dive on institutional priorities. Plus Administrative Quality & Satisfaction Surveys (AQSS) ensure you can balance value and stakeholder satifsfaction.
Join our Consortium of Labor Cost Analytics clients
Nowhere else can you compare the labor cost analytics for your institution to others. In addition to benchmarked labor cost data, Consortium Members join invite-only meetings in which HelioCampus analysts provide unique insights and facilitate conversations on an array of higher ed financial challenges.

"We went through a benchmarking analysis with HelioCampus...to understand how the spend was with [other member institutions]...and we made over a one million dollar investment to provide better student wellness and mental wellness access for our students."
Jaison Kurichi
Associate Vice President for Budget and Planning
Temple University
"Connecting with other member institutions was eye-opening...to be able to share stories and insights with them? Well, that's powerful."
Mark Flower
VP and COO, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
"We want to recruit, we want to reward, and we want to retain our faculty and our staff...Membership in the Consortium helps university executives create their narrative, align resources, and get results."
Kelli Shomaker
Senior Vice President for Business & Administration and CFO, Auburn University