14 Chapter 1: Profile of SUNY Westchester Community College and the economy SUNY WCC employee and finance data The study uses two general types of information: 1) data collected from the college and 2) county economic data obtained from various public sources and Lightcast’s proprietary data modeling tools.1 This chapter presents the basic underlying information from SUNY WCC used in this analysis and provides an overview of the Westchester County economy. Employee data Data provided by SUNY WCC include information on faculty and staff by place of work and by place of residence. These data appear in Table 1.1. As shown, SUNY WCC employed 495 full-time and 769 part-time faculty and staff in FY 2021-22. Of these, all worked in the county and 62% lived in the county. These data are used to isolate the portion of the employees’ payroll and household expenses that remains in the county economy. Revenues Figure 1.1 shows the college’s annual revenues by funding source – a total of $137.2 million in FY 2021-22. As indicated, tuition and fees comprised 20% of total revenue, and revenues from local, state, and federal government sources comprised another 78%. All other revenue (i.e., auxiliary revenue, sales and services, interest, and donations) comprised the remaining 2%. These data are critical in identifying the annual costs of educating the student body from the perspectives of students, taxpayers, and society. Expenditures Figure 1.2 displays SUNY WCC’s expense data. The combined payroll at SUNY WCC, including student salaries and wages, amounted to $94.4 million. This was equal to 75% of the college’s total expenses for FY 2021-22. Other expenditures, including operation and maintenance of plant, depreciation and interest, and purchases of supplies and services, made up $31.3 million. When we calculate the impact of these expenditures in Chapter 2, we exclude expenses for depreciation and interest, as they represent a devaluing of the college’s assets rather than an outflow of expenditures. Students SUNY WCC served 15,417 students taking courses for credit and 6,943 non-credit students in FY 2021-22. These numbers represent unduplicated student headcounts. The breakdown of the student body by gender was 54% female and 46% male. The breakdown by ethnicity was 67% students of color, 28% white, and 5% unknown. 1 See Appendix 5 for a detailed description of the data sources used in the Lightcast modeling tools. Figure 1.2: SUNY WCC expenses by function, FY 2021-22 Operation and maintenance of plant 9% Depreciation and interest 6% Employee salaries, wages, and benefits 75% Source: Data provided by SUNY WCC. All other expenditures 10% 75+66+99+1010+U$125.7 million Total expenditures Table 1.1: Employee data, FY 2021-22 Full-time faculty and staff 495 Part-time faculty and staff 769 Total faculty and staff 1,264 % of employees who work in the county 100% % of employees who live in the county 62% Source: Data provided by SUNY WCC. Figure 1.1: SUNY WCC revenues by source, FY 2021-22 Local government* 22% All other revenue 2% * Revenue from state and local government includes capital appropriations. Source: Data provided by SUNY WCC. 20+2626+3030+2222++22+U$137.2 million Total revenues Federal government 26% State government* 30% Tuition & fees 20%
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