Salaries & Benefits

Calculating Salary and benefits for faculty and staff

(Note: Faculty and staff may not charge more than their base salary rate to a sponsored project. See OMB A-21, Section J.8 - Compensation for Personal Services.)

1. Ask your fiscal technician for an updated hourly salary figure for all faculty and other personnel in your budget.
2. Multiply this number by 173.33 (174) hours. This will give you salary per month.
3. Multiply by the number of months in your budget.
4. Multiply this figure by the appropriate leave benefit percentage (see benefit table). This will give you the "loaded salary." Check with your fiscal technician to determine the job classification for each personnel listed on your budget.
5. Take the "loaded salary" and multiply it by the appropriate staff benefits rate (see benefit table).
6. List the staff benefits figure on the "fringe benefits" line of your budget.

Example of a faculty member's (ECLS F9) salary:

($40/hr)(173.33hrs/month)(2 months)(1.014 leave benefit rate) = $14,061 in salary
($14,061 loaded salary)0.365 staff benefit rate) = $5,132 in staff benefits

A 3% cost of living increase should be included each year of the project to cover salary increases. For unionized faculty UNAC faculty (job group F9), ACCFT faculty (job group A9, AR), Adjunct faculty (job group FT, FW), a 4.5% cost of living increase is recommended to cover salary increases.

Student salary calculation

Check with your Fiscal Officer/Business Office for student salary as it varies between each unit/department.

A student working 20 hrs/wk for two semesters (ECLS GN or SN) plus extra time on holidays may work a total of 760 hrs. A student working 40 hrs/wk all summer (ECLS GT or ST) may work 560 hrs. FT summer work also accrues staff benefits of 8.5%. Total hours for a whole year: 1320.

Calculating a student stipend: ($hourly)(1320)
Calculating student benefits: ($hourly)(560)(.085)

Graduate students

• Stipends

  Graduate student compensation will be gradually increasing to bring the stipend rates up to national norms beginning in Spring 2006. View the Chancellor's Memorandum for more details on the schedule to increase stipend rates.

• Tuition

  You must request tuition for a graduate student researcher unless the sponsor will not pay tuition costs (include documentation w/proposal). If you wish to supply tuition from another source, include a memo confirming the source and available funds with the proposal.

• Health Care

  Starting in FY08, all proposal budgets must include health insurance for graduate students. The UAF Graduate School has released the new graduate student health insurance rates for the 2008/2009 academic year (August 25, 2008 - August 24, 2009).

Annual: $1,188
Fall 2008: $442
Spring/Summer 2009: $746

For proposal budgeting purposes, increase health insurance rates by 7% in subsequent years. Student health care fees should be should be listed as a separate budget line item under benefits.

Student health care are subject to F&A (account code 1949) if they are provided to the student as part of a research or teaching assistantship. When these costs are included as part of a scholarship or fellowship, they DO NOT recover F&A and are excluded from the MTDC base (account code 6105).

Undergraduate students

• UA Undergraduate Salary Schedule

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