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Fringe rates are updated on this cadence.
What is a calendar year?
The term for costs covering health insurance, retirement, and similar staff benefits.
What are fringes?
The maximum amount that can be spent on an A-State purchasing card for a single purchase.
What is $2,500?
The expected weekly time commitment for graduate research assistants on a funded project.
What is 20 hours per week?
These expenses are real, necessary, and incurred for research support—but not directly assigned.
What are Indirect Costs?
The maximum amount of effort a faculty member can dedicate to a single sponsored project.
What is 100%?
The summer fringe rate for 9 months faculty at A-State.
What is 18%?
An instrument for a research project sells for $16,000. It falls under this category for budget calculation.
What is capital equipment?
Graduate students funded by a federal training grant often receive this type of compensation.
What is a stipend?
Three elements for which indirect costs are not calculated?
What are tuition, capital equipment, and participant support?
The number of months of summer salary a faculty member may charge to a grant.
What is 3?
A-State fringe rate for students and part-time non-student employees.
What is 0.05%?
The unit cost minimum to be considered equipment.
What is $5,000?
These students are typically paid as hourly workers on a funded grant project.
Who are undergraduate students?
The document negotiated with the federal government that defines IDC rates.
What is a Rate Agreement?
The two ways to pay compensation for employees on a grant.
What are salary and hourly wage?
The A-State fringe rate for 12-month staff whose salary is $85,000.
What is 37%?
The typical minimum length of time an instrument should be used to be considered capital equipment.
What is 2 years?
The portion of the student tuition that is budgeted on proposals for research assistants.
What is the in-state tuition rate?
At A-State the proportion of indirect costs that go back to the college of the PI.
What is 39%?
When a faculty member is funded by multiple grants for the summer term this must be documented.
What is effort?
The difference in fringe rates during the academic year between 9-month and 12-month faculty (Salary $65,000).
What is 27%?
A researcher needs 75 temperature meters each costing $100. This is the category in the budget where the $7,500 will be placed.
What are supplies?
The term for institutional payments made to cover tuition for graduate students on assistantships.
What is tuition remission or a tuition waiver?
A university applies a 50% IDC rate to MTDC. The grant’s modified total direct cost is $120,000. This is the amount of earned IDC by the end of the grant funding.
What is $40,000 in IDCs?