Fringe Benefit Rates
Fringe benefits must be budgeted in grants for all faculty, A/P staff, civil service employees, postdoctoral fellows, Extra Help employees, and retired SIU employees who have salary being charged to the grant. Fringe benefits are not budgeted for graduate assistants or student workers.
The University's Facilities & Administrative (F&A, or indirect) cost rates set by the government have now established all fringe benefit rates—medical (including health, dental, and life insurance) and retirement/Medicare—as a single percentage of salary. This will be the case for the duration of the F&A agreement (7/1/08 through 6/30/12).
Approval for a new Employer Fringe Rate of 38% for Faculty & Staff was obtained and is effective on 7/1/2011 and will be in effect for existing or new grants with budget periods starting on or continuing beyond that date. The current fringe benefit rate of 38% will expire on June 30, 2012.
Fringe Rates and Classifications are as follows:
Faculty & Staff - 38.00%
Faculty II (base salary > $200,000) - 39.00%
SIU Students & ineligible J-1 employees - 0%
Retired Employees - 1.5%
Extra Help - 7.7%
View the College and Universities Rate Agreement FY 2012 [pdf]
To prepare accurate proposal budgets, the new Fringe rates should be used for the affected budget periods.
J-1 Visa Employees who are not eligible for fringes are included in the Student classification. Once they become eligible for Fringes & they are moved to the Faculty & Staff classification, then the grant is assessed at 38%.
Fringes are not charged for SIU students, including graduate students. Non-SIU students who are hired as Extra Help (Temp Help) are subject to the 7.7% rate. To avoid a Fringe charge, SIU students must be hired as student help. If undergraduate or graduate SIU students are hired as Extra-Help, they are subject to the 7.7% rate.
Please direct any questions regarding this to Pam Helfert, in the Springfield office of the Associate Dean for Research, (217) 545-4549.
