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HELIOCAMPUS BENCHMARKING CONSORTIUM

Exclusive offer for the University of California System

Measure your academic and administrative labor costs and benchmark internally and externally against other members to inform strategic planning and manage budgets.

Balance the scale to maintain financial health

Get a deep dive into labor allocation and costs when you analyze against job description criteria, not just department or function. We enable you to compare ongoing workforce investments among internal departments and with other member institutions.

  • Manage labor spend to contain costs or make strategic investments

  • Inform key financial processes, like annual budgeting, resource or strategic planning, with more precise data

  • Evaluate alignment with your strategic plan to demonstrate good financial stewardship and sustainability

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Why join the Benchmarking Consortium?

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Conduct workforce planning.

Identify under-resourced areas for reinvestment, over-resourced areas for reallocation, and determine how competitive your institution is in recruiting and retaining staff.

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Benchmark against member institutions.

Understand how your investment in revenue-generating activities compares to other UC system institutions and other members.

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Support key financial processes.

Put your data to work in aligning annual budgets, resource plans, and strategic planning.

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Impact student success.

Demonstrate how labor spend investment can translate into improvements in enrollment, retention, and completion.

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Demonstrate financial sustainability for accreditation.

Manage finances in alignment with your mission and strategic planning, plus provide evidence of good financial stewardship.

Visit the UC Systemwide Procurement portal to learn about our partnership.

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Go deeper on the impact of staffing and satisfaction

Understand where the institution is generating value and satisfaction while also revealing potential areas of underinvestment in resources from a people, process, or technology standpoint with our Administrative Quality and Satisfaction Surveys (AQSS). These surveys provide a more complete picture of the effectiveness of your labor investments by surveying faculty and staff on their satisfaction with administrative service units.

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Expand your insights with DataFlex

DataFlex allows you to connect directly to a nightly extract of your benchmarking data so you can pull it into other platforms. Combine it with other institutional data or perform additional analyses using any tool of your choice.

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We're excited to work with the University of California system! Use the link at right to refer to the UC Systemwide Procurement portal for details on how to proceed.

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