The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis promotes a healthy economy and financial stability. How do we do it? The following figures from the past year offer a window into the St. Louis Fed through our people and work.

All numbers are as of Dec. 31, 2017, unless otherwise noted.

OUR PEOPLE

• 1,373
  staff members, the majority located at the District’s headquarters in St. Louis, with branches in Little Rock, Louisville and Memphis.
• 100
  perfect score for a second straight year in the Human Rights Campaign’s Best Places to Work Corporate Equality Index, a national benchmarking tool for policies and practices pertinent to LGBTQ+ employees.
• 16
  new students appointed to the St. Louis Fed’s student board of directors.
• 31
  college and seven high school students served as interns for the Bank.
• #10
  ranking by DiversityInc in its 2017 Top Regional Companies list.

SAFETY AND SOUNDNESS

• 125
  state member banks and 485 bank and savings and loan holding companies supervised by the St. Louis Fed.
• 1.13 billion
  currency notes inspected and deemed fit for circulation.
• 3,041
  suspect counterfeit notes withdrawn from circulation.
• $36.5 million¹
  in improper payments identified by the St. Louis Fed in its role as fiscal agent to the U.S. Treasury and its Do Not Pay program, helping federal agencies eliminate payment error, waste, fraud and abuse.
• 29,481
  hours spent by internal auditors reviewing St. Louis Fed operations.

ECONOMIC RESEARCH

• 35 million
  page views of the St. Louis Fed’s research site by people in 192 countries.
• 2.5 million
  economic research items from around the world that anyone can access for free via IDEAS.²
• 507,627
  data series in Federal Reserve Economic Data, better known as FRED^®—the St. Louis Fed’s economic database—available online.
• 128,282
  page views of GeoFRED^®, our geographical economic data tool that allows users to transform data in FRED to create and share maps by geographic category and time frame.
• 566,993
  items in FRASER^®, the St. Louis Fed’s publicly available, historical digital library, with materials dating from 1791 to 2017.
• Top 5%
  ranking for James Bullard on RePEc in a number of categories, including the h-index.³
• #7
  ranking in research productivity for the St. Louis Fed among all research departments at central banks worldwide.
• #37 among all U.S. research institutions.
• #69 among all research institutions worldwide.

PUBLIC OUTREACH

• 20,069
  people attended our public dialogue and other outreach events in St. Louis, Little Rock, Louisville and Memphis.
• 2,705
• students and their chaperones from 75 area schools visited the St. Louis Fed’s Economy Museum.
• 18,080
  bankers, regulators and other industry participants joined call-in and in-person St. Louis Fed information sessions held on timely financial and regulatory developments.
• 485,000+
  students were reached through educators who attended St. Louis Fed economic education programs.
• 1.2 million
  student enrollments in the St. Louis Fed’s Econ Lowdown online economic education and financial literacy courses and videos.
• 84%
  of inner-city, majority-minority and all-girls high schools across the Fed's Eighth District accessed the St. Louis Fed’s financial literacy programs.
• 10
  awards for Econ Lowdown.
• Two Excellence in Financial Literacy Education Awards from the Institute for Financial Literacy.
• Eight Curriculum Awards from the National Association of Economic Educators.
• 9,933
  people signed up for 41 workshops, conferences, forums and other events led by our Community Development department to promote economic resilience and mobility for low- and moderate-income and underserved households and communities across the District.

COMMUNICATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA

• 8,758
  LinkedIn followers and 7,769 Facebook followers.
• 238,532
  page views for The FRED Blog.
• 76,855
  followers on Twitter handle @stlouisfed.
• Listed as one of TraderLife’s 10 Trading Twitter Accounts to Follow in 2018.
• Named one of TheStreet’s 15 of the Best Finance Twitter Accounts to Follow.
• Listed as one of Business Insider's 125 Most Important Finance People You Have to Follow on Twitter.
• 437,361
  page views for On the Economy blog.
• Ranked #19 in Top 75 Bank Blogs by Feedspot.

CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP

• 119,340
  pounds of cash shredded and composted after being deemed no longer fit for circulation.
• 149
  tons of waste recycled or composted—saved from landfills.
• $243,142
  donated by Bank employees to local United Way campaigns.
• $38,941
  raised by employees to help support food banks and feeding programs for the needy in the St. Louis area.
• 9,861
  school items donated by employees to the Back-to-School Supply Drive to benefit area students.
• 37
  Bank employees volunteered for Teach Children to Save Day at elementary schools in the St. Louis area.