Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	46.82
Liaison	Ashley Woolman
Submission Date	May 16, 2019
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

Western Colorado University
PA-11: Employee Compensation

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.10 / 3.00	Julie Feier CFO Finance & Administration

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Part 1

The local living wage (based on a family of four and expressed as an hourly wage):

16.49 US/Canadian $

Percentage of all employees (regular full-time, regular part-time, and temporary workers) that receive a living wage (benefits excluded):

100

Part 2

Does the institution have employees of contractors that work on-site as part of regular and ongoing campus operations?:

Percentage of employees of contractors that work on-site as part of regular and ongoing campus operations that the institution has verified as receiving a living wage (benefits excluded) (0-100; enter ‘0’ if unknown):

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Part 3

The total compensation provided to the institution’s lowest paid regular (i.e., permanent) employee or pay grade meets or exceeds what percentage of the living wage?:

125 percent

A brief description of the minimum total compensation provided to the institution’s lowest paid employee or pay grade, including any in-kind benefits included as part of the total compensation figure :

Free college tuition, pension, medical, etc. Our lowest paid employees make $28,915 and receive an additional $10,000 in compensation related to benefits not including tuition benefits for themselves and their subordinates.

Optional Fields

Has the institution made a formal commitment to pay a living wage?:

A copy or brief description of the institution’s written policy stating its commitment to a living wage:

N/A

Has the institution made a formal commitment to provide a living wage to its student employees and/or graduate teaching/research assistants (e.g. by adopting a student bill-of-rights)?:

A brief description of the institution’s commitment to a student living wage:

N/A

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

http://www.colorado.gov/dhr

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Our on-going partnership is that Tenderfoot Childcare Center is on Western's land and we assist them with maintenance. The goal was simply to have a facility where there was none in this end of the Valley. So that the service exists is a subsidy, given it wouldn’t have without our donating the land and Western employees coordinating the grants etc.-it operates as a non-profit and employees our students through work study.