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).

For the vast majority of faculty and other personnel receiving fringe benefits, the percentage will be 32% x the employee's total salary on the project.

For faculty and other personnel making over $200,000, the percentage will be 31%.

Please direct any questions regarding this to Pam Helfert,in the Springfield office of the Associate Dean for Research, (217) 545-4549.