Colorado State University employees and its alumni living across the state earn more than $4.1 billion in household income, according to a recent report titled Created to Serve: Colorado State University's Impact on the State's Economy. According to the study, the collective income represents 3.1 percent of all household income in the state, generates $130.8 million in state income taxes and $50.2 million in annual sales taxes.

Other findings from the study include:

- CSU employees represent 11 percent of household income in Fort Collins.

- CSU generates more than $300 million in annual research spending.

- CSU research results in a 0.2 percent increase in overall productivity of Colorado firms, worth $79.7 million annually.

- Students spend $168 million in Fort Collins each year, which supports 628 jobs.

- CSU employs 6,200 workers and approximately 50,000 CSU alumni are employed in the state.

- Spin-off companies created by CSU research have created 550 jobs in the state.

The Group Inc. Real Estate. Study finds CSU stirs Colorado's economy. Volume 34, No. 6