f $36.3 million during the 1995-96 academic year. Full time employees include 510 faculty and 882 staff. Included in the part time totals are 147 faculty and 274 classified and exempt employees. In addition to salaries, the university provided $10.1 million in employee benefits, including its calculated portion of Social Security (FICA), pension contributions and medical benefits.Table 2 depicts the salary totals and the estimated aggregate expenditures made by ISU faculty and staff. The spending for each expense type reflects the proportions that a typical Southeast Idaho family has been determined to spend, and is illustrated in Figure 2.Table 2: Faculty and Staff Salary ExpendituresRecipientSalary Faculty$19,702,878 Staff$16,630,221 Total$36,333,099 Expense TypeAmount Taxes: Federal, State & Local$11,204,328 Housing$5,616,427 Food$3,819,238 Transportation$4,353,696 Clothing$3,172,350 Medical$2,338,360 Recreation$1,692,312 Donations & Gifts$871,746 Miscellaneous$3,264,643 Expenditures for food, clothing and transportation total $11.3 million annually, with approximately 90% of that total being expended within Bannock County. Housing costs consist primarily of mortgage payments, which in turn quickly leave the local economy in the form of bank investments made outside of the Pocatello area. Consequently, the estimated $5.6 million in housing-related expenditures made by ISU faculty and staff are not directly infused into the local economy in the same way that consumer expenditures would be.On the other hand, mortgage purchases represent an induced stimulus to the area’s residential construction market, thereby having a significant multiplier effect on the economy of the area. (See the section entitled Impact Assessments for a discussion of multiplier effects.)Medical and recreational ex...
