University of Wisconsin Stout | Wisconsin's Polytechnic University

UW-Stout creates income through the earnings of its faculty and staff, as well as through its own operating and capital expenditures. Adjusting for taxes and other monies withdrawn from the local economy in support of UW-Stout, it is estimated that the UW-Stout Service Area economy receives a net of $104 million in added labor and non-labor income due to UW-Stout operations each year.

Students from outside the region spend money for room and board, transportation, entertainment, and other miscellaneous personal expenses. These expenditures create jobs and incomes for local businesses. The spending of UW-Stout’s non-local students generates approximately $8.3 million in added income in the UW-Stout Service Area economy each year.

Each year UW-Stout draws more than 65,200 visitors to the region. Non-local visitors bring monies that would not have otherwise entered the economy, including expenditures for lodging, eating and drinking, transportation, and other personal expenses. Adjusting for monies paid to the university (e.g., for ticket sales, gifts, food, etc.), the net impact of non-local visitor spending in the region is an estimated $2.7 million in added income annually.

Every year students leave UW-Stout and join or rejoin the regional workforce. Their added skills translate to higher income and a more robust UW-Stout Service Area economy. Based on UW-Stout’s historical enrollment and credit hour production over the past 30-year period, it is estimated that the accumulated contribution of UW-Stout instruction received by former students (both completers and non-completers) annually adds some $178.8 million in income to UW-Stout Service Area.