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Last Updated: Jul 22, 2025, 02:03 PM
Current SIU Employees
Check with your OSPA research project specialist for current monthly salary information for any participating SIU employee.
Graduate Assistantship Stipends
Rates for GA stipends can be found below. The established rates are minimums and apply to all units; individual faculty or units are permitted to use a higher rate.
The standard graduate assistantship is one-half time (50%). OSPA budget spreadsheets should be set up to use the full-time (100%) rate at half-time (50% or 0.5) effort.
FY27 and FY28 stipend rates are subject to 1.5% increases.
New student medical benefit fee: $243 for fall and spring; no fee for summer.
Please note: Tuition waiver amounts for administrative assistants are subject to taxation. More information can be found here.
Master's | Ph.D. | |||
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Departments | 100% | 50% | 100% | 50% |
Provost & Vice Chancellor | 3248 | 1624 | 3554 | 1777 |
Information Technology | 3302 | 1651 | 3554 | 1777 |
Agriculture | 3248 | 1624 | 3554 | 1777 |
Applied Sci. & Arts | 3248 | 1624 | 3554 | 1777 |
Business | 3248 | 1624 | 3554 | 1777 |
Education | 3248 | 1624 | 3554 | 1777 |
Engineering | 3384 | 1692 | 3624 | 1812 |
Graduate School/OSPA | 3248 | 1624 | 3554 | 1777 |
Liberal Arts | 3248 | 1624 | 3554 | 1777 |
English | 3248 | 1624 | 3554 | 1777 |
Library | 3248 | 1624 | 3554 | 1777 |
Mass Comm. & Media Arts | 3248 | 1624 | 3554 | 1777 |
Medicine | ||||
Pharm | 3750 | 1875 | 3750 | 1875 |
Microbiology | 3738 | 1869 | 3738 | 1869 |
Physiology | 3392 | 1696 | 4302 | 2151 |
Science* | 3392 | 1696 | 3554 | 1777 |
Chemistry/Physics/Micro | 3738 | 1869 | 3738 | 1869 |
Mathematics | 3494 | 1747 | 3796 | 1898 |
Computer Science | 3384 | 1692 | 3624 | 1812 |
*Zoology – Ph.D. Candidacy Stage | 3610 | 1805 | ||
VC for Admin/Finance | 3248 | 1624 | 3554 | 1777 |
Law Clerk | 3314 | 1657 |
1 Pursuant to section 13.1.1 of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, this stipend schedule replaces and supersedes Appendix A of the CBA, effective July 1, 2023.
Fringe Benefit Rates
Fringe benefits must be budgeted in grants for all SIU personnel who have salaries being charged to the grant. Standard fringe benefits are not budgeted for graduate assistants or student workers (see below).
The University's fringe benefit rates for sponsored projects are negotiated annually with our cognizant federal agency, the Department of Health and Human Services. The approved rates are appended to the University's F&A Rate agreement located here.
Type | Rate |
---|---|
Personnel (FY23) | 48.4% |
Personnel (FY24) | 48.4%1 |
Personnel (FY25 - proposal budgets with any budget period extending beyond 6/30/2024) | 53%1 |
Retired/Emeritus | 1.5% |
Extra Help | 7.7% |
Post-Docs | 37.5% |
Graduate Students | 50% of Primary Care Fee. See rates below. |
Undergraduate Students | None. |
1 FY24 and FY25 rates have been submitted to the federal government for approval. Rates beyond June 30, 2024, are estimates and are provided for planning purposes only. Future rates are subject to change. |
Student Medical Benefit Fee (SMB)
When including a GA in your proposal budget, principal investigators/project directors must budget for the appropriate SMB fee for each semester the GA will be employed by the project. The SMB cannot be prorated for a GA working a partial semester on the project for budgeting purposes.
PIs/PDs should budget the following semester rates (no fee for summer):
Fall $243
Spring $243
Graduate Student Tuition
Proposals that include salary support for graduate students may also include tuition if allowable by the sponsor. Tuition information and rates can be found here. A 1.5% increase should be budgeted for tuition included in future periods. Tuition costs charged directly to a sponsored project are not subject to indirect costs (F&A).
Indirect Cost Rates
Type of Project | On-Campus Project Rate | Off-Campus Project Rate |
---|---|---|
Research |
47.5% (7/1/2020 - 6/30/2023) 48.5% (7/1/2023 - 6/30/2025) |
26% |
Training/Instruction | 40.4% | 26% |
Other Sponsored Activities | 31% | 26% |
The current Indirect Cost Rate Agreement can be found here.