penditures on the part of ISU faculty and staff total $4.0 million annually, with an estimated 70% of that amount expended locally and 30% expended elsewhere. Purchases of drugs and hospital care often accrue to out-of-state providers, so it is unlikely that the local share of such purchases will increase. Figure 2: Allocation of Wage and Salary Income for a Typical Idaho Family Donations and gifts totaling about $870,000 are contributed by ISU faculty and staff to numerous causes and beneficiaries. While a comparatively smaller dollar value than other expenditure categories included in Table 2, it represents 2.4% of gross wages. Area churches and civic organizations benefit and depend on these generous donations, which are supplemented by contributions of time and talent on the part of faculty and staff households. The economic benefit to Pocatello’s community life generated by these expenditures is significant beyond the dollar values involved.Miscellaneous consumer expenditures not included in the above categories total another $3.2 million; they include catalogue sales, investment and gambling expenditures, etc. About 50% of the expenditures in this category can be attributed to the local economy, with the other half spent elsewhere.Taxes are mistakenly not often thought of as beneficial to a local economy. However, property taxes in particular are directly translated into governmental services including public education and municipal services like police and fire protection, libraries, roads, sewer, water, etc. ISU faculty and staff contribute about 31% of their gross wages to taxes of various kinds: About $7.3 million of the $11.2 million in aggregate taxes consist of federal payments in the form of personal income tax withholding, social security (FICA) contributions, and various federal taxes, e.g. alcohol, tobacco, and gasoline. The State of Idaho receives an estimated $2.7 million...
