This chapter serves as a beginner's guide to some essentials of human resource faculty data and cost data and their integration into products to facilitate institutional decision making. It begins with a brief overview of general higher education cost data concepts, followed by a similar synopsis of relevant higher education human resource data. The chapter then outlines issues related to the sharing of cost and human resource faculty data and institutional researchers' roles in integrating and presenting these data and information. Next, the first steps in preparing integrated human resource faculty data and cost data and information are presented. Finally, some contemporary applications of integrated human resource faculty data and cost data are shared. (Contains 7 tables.)