What are the guidelines for overload pay on a grant/contract?
?} See http://www.luc.edu/academicaffairs/pdfs/grant_based_salary_luc__faculty.pdf. • What are F&A (facilities and administrative) costs (sometimes called indirect costs or overhead)? {?} These are expenses that benefit grant/contract funded activities but are of such a nature that it would not be practical or cost-effective to try to calculate what the actual benefit is to particular projects. Typical expenses are maintenance, building depreciation, library costs, and various kinds of administrative functions (purchasing, payroll, ORS, etc.) that are employed indirectly to support your research and scholarly efforts. F&A costs are reimbursed through one or more rates that are negotiated with the federal government and then, normally, are applied as a percentage of most of the direct costs incurred on particular projects. The lakeside campuses have two negotiated rates depending on whether a project is research or something else (see http://www.luc.edu/ors/facostrates.shtml). Keep in m
