Company Profile
TTCU Federal Credit Union
Company Overview
WORKING AT TTCU
Established in 1934 as Tulsa Teachers Credit Union, TTCU Federal Credit Union is the second-largest credit union in Oklahoma. We're a $2.0 billion financial institution with a full complement of depository, lending and financial advisory services. As a not-for-profit organization, our financial success is returned to our membership in the form of low-rate loans and high-rate savings accounts. The membership of TTCU is more than 135,000 strong and is made up of teachers, school faculty, administrators, staff, students and more than 625 affiliated groups.
Our Vision: Enriching life through financial leadership.
Our Mission Statement: We are the trusted source for financial solutions.
More than words, our nine core values define what we look for when recruiting our great employees.
Earn Trust
Deliver Extraordinary Service and Value
Inspire Passion for Excellence
Seek Innovative Solutions
Build Caring Relationships
Foster Teamwork
Pursue Growth Through Learning
Embrace Change
Promote Fun and Happiness
Empowerment
TTCU is more than our employer, it is our credit union. Individually, we are responsible for our personal success, and collectively, all of us determine the success of TTCU. TTCU will continue to do its utmost to provide us with the working environment and the resources we need to do our job well and to support us in our career development. It is up to us to determine our goals for continuous improvement. There is a strong link between the goals of each employee and the goals of TTCU.
Diversity
We believe in diversity because:
An environment that enables us to attract, recruit, engage and retain the best people from a diverse labor pool is essential to the success of our organization
Enhanced understanding of diversity leads to improved service to our members
Diversity benefits our employees and the communities in which we live and work
Diversity in our workforce stimulates innovative solutions, flexibility and a passion for excellence, which differentiates us in the marketplace
Recognized as an Oklahoma business that promotes health and wellness to our employees.
Company History
TTCU HISTORY
A cigar box in the right-hand desk drawer in Miss Wilson’s room is the story of how Tulsa Teachers Credit Union, with its handful of school teacher founders and assets of $1,600, grew to become TTCU Federal Credit Union, with more than 135,000 members and more than $2.0 billion in assets.
Established in 1934 as Tulsa Teachers Credit Union, TTCU was founded in the midst of the Great Depression. After years of booming success with the discovery of oil at the turn of the century, Tulsa faced dire circumstances after the stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent East Texas oil discovery in 1930. Little money was to be had, and the few banks that had money weren’t lending it out. Despite hard times and little money, education did not grind to a halt. Earning salaries as little as $100 a month, while still expected to dress in suits and ties and proper dresses, no group of professionals needed financial services more than teachers.
Thus, the creation of Tulsa Teachers Credit Union.
Miss Linnie B. Wilson, a bookkeeping teacher at Central High School was approached by a fellow teacher, George Pearson, about managing a new financial cooperative for teachers that he and the Tulsa Classroom Teachers Association intended on organizing – a credit union. A credit union was a different kind of financial institution than a bank, because it was not-for-profit and owned by its members. Miss Wilson accepted the position and November 20, 1934 marked the official organization of Tulsa Teachers Credit Union. The credit union had a very humble beginning – in a cigar box in the right-hand desk drawer in Miss Wilson’s room, to be exact. But, within only three years, it had grown to more than 400 members, and Miss Wilson was forced to relocate the credit union from her cigar box to a new office building. The concept of “not for profit, but for service” guided the small credit union as loans were made to help new teachers buy suits to wear in the classroom, as well as to help teachers make ends meet in the summer months when school was out – and that concept still guides the credit union today.
Over the years, we have expanded and changed our membership and qualification standards, locations and even our name – but we haven’t strayed from our underlying principle of serving our members.
Benefits
Tuition Assistance up to $5,250/year
Free gym at our corporate office
Employees receive coverage at two times their basic annual earnings to a benefit maximum of $500,000
Pet Insurance
Employee 401K / Retirement Plan - The 1st of the 13th month of employment TTCU deposits 10% of Employee's gross wages into a retirement account set up with an outside provider. Vesting schedule applies.