Rates

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.

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.

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