The Associated Students of Michigan State University, or ASMSU, have released their budget for the 2016-17 fiscal year.

Unlike in previous years, ASMSU was not able to immediately release individual salary information because of restrictions under the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act, or FERPA, that doesn’t allow organizations to release salary information with “identifying marks” that could connect those salaries with their recipients.

Although these salary amounts have changed through time, ASMSU hasn’t changed their hourly wages for many years.

“So our interns make, just generalizing, about $9 an hour,” Sam Terzich, ASMSU chief of staff, said. “And then our directorship level, about 10 (dollars an hour), and then above would be, of course, a little bit above. So that hasn’t changed in years.”

What has changed is the amount of hours ASMSU employees work. Last year, ASMSU put together an internal review committee that included members of the general assembly, the class councils and the staff. The goal was to take a comprehensive look at several aspects of the way ASMSU was run, including how they paid their employees.

“So the internal review committee did adjust a handful of positions and they lowered their hours, and then on a couple of positions increased their hours,” Terzich said. “It was a comprehensive look at pay, and so that has changed.”

Even when the MSU Board of Trustees increased hourly pay across campus earlier in the year, ASMSU was able to maintain their regular wages.

“We pay our employees what’s called project pay, which means we pay you on the project that you do,” Terzich said. “So more like a semester basis, and we measure that, completing your project, by the hours that you work.”

In the 2016-17 fiscal year, ASMSU has an estimated budget of $1,669,114.44. Sixteen percent of that, $276,706, has been allotted for payrolls.