Rates and Other Resources

Indirect

• Federal Facilities & Administrative Cost Rate Agreement  (effective 10/23/13)
• Indirect costs for on-campus activities: 64.1% of total salary and wages
• Indirect costs for off-campus activities: 29.8% of total salary and wages

Benefits

• Benefits rate for faculty summer salary: 9%
• Benefits rate for student summer payroll: 9%
• Benefits rate for student AY payroll and student stipends: 0%
• Federal benefits rate for faculty academic year and exempt staff salary: 30%
• Foundation benefits rate for faculty academic year and exempt staff salary: 33.7%

Hiring Students

• Summer Housing cost/student = $87.50/week per student in a double room; $109.50/week in a single room  (MHC may require a minimum number of weeks for on-campus housing)
• Summer Stipend/student = $380 per week
• Payroll rates for Student Employment - should be budgeted at no less than $9/hour (MA new minimum beginning 1/1/15) - Hourly equivalent to the Summer Stipend rate is $9.50/hour
• Summer Research Students: How to Determine Fellowship vs. Employment

Other Resources

• Standard inflation rate for Faculty and exempt salaries: 3% per year
• Data Management Plan
• MHC Faculty Workshop Effort Budgeting and Reporting
• MHC Workshop Allowable vs Unallowable Expenditures on Federal Grants
• MHC Workshop New Uniform Guidance (Jan 2015)
• Mount Holyoke Administrative Information
• Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan (sample, written by Kathy Aidala)
• Science Safety Handbook
• Mount Holyoke Institutional Boilerplate (2014)
• The Sciences at Mount Holyoke (boilerplate 2014)
• Five Colleges Inc. (boilerplate 2014)
• Sample R2W Grant Activity Report
• Essay on learning from rejected grant proposals