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: 35.1%
Hiring Students
- Summer Housing cost/student = $350/month per student in a double room; $450/month in a single room
- Summer Stipend/student = $380 per week
- Payroll rates for Student Employment
- 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
- Mount Holyoke Administrative Information
- Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan (sample, written by Kathy Aidala)
- Science Safety Handbook
- MHC and the Sciences (boilerplate 2014)
- Sample R2W Grant Activity Report
- Essay on learning from rejected grant proposals
