Personnel and finance
Personnel
The total number of permanent staff was 654 on 31 December 2008.
management 14
researchers 240
experts 24
technical 87
IT 43
office 72
laboratory 46
research assistants 102
maintenance 26
Entire personnel 821, of which 140 are fixed-term employees and 27 have subsidised jobs.
Finance
Operational efficiency
| Operational costs1000€, realisation | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | |
| Core processes | 52 406 | 52 619 | 52 646 | |
| Production, acquisition and implementation of research results Focus areas: |
40 042 | 40 396 | 42 388 | |
| - Forest-based enterprise and business activities | 13 043 | 13 234 | 16 161 | |
| - Social impacts of forests | 6065 | 6836 | 6176 | |
| - The structure and functioning of forest ecosystems | 16 307 | 15 378 | 15 537 | |
| - Information reserves for forestry and the forest environment | 4113 | 4469 | 4069 | |
| - Not included in Metla´s current focus areas | 514 | 479 | 445 | |
| State authority and information services | 11 098 | 10 915 | 8 706 | |
| Research services funded by clients | 1266 | 1308 | 1552 | |
Allocation of funds to different processes in Metla