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In great company

12/11/2009 - 11:32

The University of Oregon is one of the largest and most stable employers in the state with 4,230 employees, plus another 1,200 paid graduate teaching fellows.

  • This is roughly the same number of employees as Nike or Hewlett-Packard.In addition to 4,230 faculty and staff jobs, university spending generates an additional 9,000 jobs within the state.
  • The University of Oregon pays more than a quarter of a billion dollars in wages each year, yielding almost $13.7 million in state income tax.
  • That’s nearly one-fifth of the university’s entire state appropriation in FY2007-8.
  • The university spent almost $542 million in FY2007-8, with an additional $197 million in off-campus expenditures by UO students. Ninety percent of the university’s vendors last year were small businesses.



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