Indirect
- New rates effective 9/3/15 - cost rate agreement
- Indirect costs for on-campus activities: 64.4% of total salary and wages
- Indirect costs for off-campus activities: 31.8% 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%
- Benefits rate for part-time employees who are eligible for retirement contributions 19.5%
- 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 = $90.13/week per student in a double room; $112.79/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 Massachusetts minimum wage currently $10/hour increasing to $11/hour on 1/1/2017
- Summer Research Students: How to Determine Fellowship vs. Employment
- See also Student Employment Policies
Other Resources
- Standard inflation rate for Faculty and exempt salaries: 3% per year
- Mount Holyoke Administrative Information
- 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)
- Postdoctoral Researcher Mentoring Plan (sample, written by Kathy Aidala)
- Science Safety Handbook
- Mount Holyoke Institutional Boilerplate (2014)
- The Sciences at Mount Holyoke (boilerplate 2016)
- Five Colleges Inc. (boilerplate 2014)
- Sample R2W Grant Activity Report
- Essay on learning from rejected grant proposals
- Fulbright Presentation Feb, 2016
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