AbstractrnrnFinancial literacy is a basic and important requirement for individual to be able to make financialrnplanning, managing personal finance and make appropriate financial decisions including lecturersrnat the Faculty of Economics and Business University of Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara. Thisrnstudy aims to determine how the level of financial literacy of lecturers at Faculty of Economics andrnBusiness UMSU based on gender, age, monthly income and expenditure per month. This type ofrnresearch is explanatory research and quantitative descriptive. The population is 94 permanentrnlecturers who teach at the Faculty of Economics and Business UMSU, using saturated samplesrnmeans the entire population is the sample of this study. Data analysis techniques used descriptivernanalysis assisted by SPSS software. The results of the study prove that lecturers of Faculty ofrnEconomics and Business UMSU have a low level of financial literacy (below 60%). Femalernlecturers have a low level of financial literacy compared to male lecturers, a group of youngrnlecturers with an age range of 23-35 years as a group of lecturers with the lowest level of financialrnliteracy, a group of lecturers with income and expenditure levels in the category between IDRrn1,000,000 to Rp.5,000,000, - as the group with the lowest literacy level. Financial awareness andrneducation is the most appropriate solution to overcome